Back in my college days, I used to work on many different projects and all of them required heavy documentation. Although we had a personal computer in our dorm room, a good internet connection was always an issue, and so the university’s cybercafe was the only savior.
While searching for references at the coffee shop, I usually save the entire web page as an HTML file (with all its associated files in a separate folder) on my university computer and use a pen drive to bring the data to my computer for offline reference.
Although the process of saving web pages is very easy (just press Ctrl+S button) but I think if that day I had ZipTabs, my workload would be greatly reduced.
ZipTabs is a Chrome extension that can save your opened web pages in HTML format with all the images and CSS information, and compress them all into a single archive with excellent compression.
Step 1: ZipTabs requires SingleFile Core, a page processor extension, to work. So if you don’t already have it, download and install the latter before installing ZipTabs.
Step 2: After you have installed both extensions, I recommend restarting the browser. If you have any unsaved work open in your browser, save it and restart your browser.
Step 3: Now, when you want to zip your tabs, click on the ZipTabs icon in the Chrome extensions area. The extension will load with all open tabs in a list with checkboxes for each tab. Select the tabs you want to compress and click the Zip button.
Step 4: Provide the zip file a name and click the OK button to start the process. Now the process will start and will show the process as a percentage in the ZipTabs icon.
Step 5: Once the tabs are zipped successfully, it will be saved in Chrome’s default download folder.
If you need to read these files in the future, you can simply extract it and double click to load it on your browser even when you are offline. This page will contain all the images, HTML and CSS details and will look like the page you are reading online.
According to the developer, once you’ve saved the zip file, you can open all the zipped pages at once using the Choose File button, but the never worked for me. If it works for you, please share it with us.
My judgment
If you’re on a slower machine, you may find your computer’s response time slows down while the zip file is being created. I also encountered some failed operations when testing the app, but when I restarted the browser the problem was fixed.
Overall, ZipTabs is a great extension to save open web pages in the browser for one-click offline reference. You can use it if you are in a situation where you have to use a public computer for research and need to carry your data in a removable drive.
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