The Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF) is a legacy

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format that was provided by

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through an

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, used to store one or more web pages with their associated audio, video, and other related web resources to a single file. Unlike

MHTML MHTML, an initialism of "MIME encapsulation of aggregate HTML documents", is a Web archive file format used to combine, in a single computer file, the HTML code and its companion resources (such as images) that are represented by external hyperl ...

, which uses

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encoding within a single HTML file, MAFF compresses the page into a ZIP

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file. The extension supported versions of Firefox from 2007 to 2018 but not later, and there are no plans to update it. It continued to be supported in Cyberfox and

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, forks of Firefox that try to keep features removed from Firefox like the traditional extension API. Browser extension

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(with assistant PyWebScrapBook), available for Firefox 57+ and Chromium-based browsers, supports saving and opening MAFF files.

Pale Moon Pale Moon is an open-source web browser with an emphasis on customization; its motto is "Your browser, Your way". There are official releases for Microsoft Windows and Linux, as well as contributed builds for various platforms. Pale Moon origi ...

extension MozArchiver, a fork of the original extension, provides the same support for Pale Moon 26.0 and newer. Existing files in the discontinued .maff format can be accessed by extracting the internal folders and files with an unarchiver such as

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. It also allows for automatic processing, e.g. as ZIP-type in local search machines (like DocFetcher). Pale Moon allows .maff files to be opened in MS Windows.

Format licensing

MAFF is an

open file format An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by an openly published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and which can be used and implemented by anyone. Open file format is licensed with open li ...

. The file format specification is published.

External links

* * {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101222211/http://legacycollector.org/firefox-addons/212/index.html , date=1 November 2019 , title=MAF Addon Archive — direct links to the XPI files might require non-Firefox based browsers (or older Firefox based) in order to download.

* ttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webscrapbook/ MAFF format as option in WebScrapBook for Firefox
MAFF format as option in WebScrapBook for Chrome browsers (Chrome, Chromium etc.)

Sources cited

Web Archives Archive formats Firefox

Format licensing

See also

External links

Sources cited