Is my Browser "Intelligent"?

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I save LOTS and LOTS of stuff. Pretty much everything I read!

Lately I have noticed something both peculiar, scary, yet somewhat handy…

It seems that FireFox knows what I am saving?!

What do I mean??

Well, as far as I can remember, the last web page I saved in FireFox was some news article. Whatever article I would have saved would have went to my - you guessed it - “Articles” folder!

So, when I just went to save a new word that I learned (i.e. “panopoly”), then why did FireFox open up to my “Vocabulary” folder??

(Most apps remember the last directory you were in, and will default to there when you do a Save-As. But I’ve never seen an app where the Save-As seems to consistently match the type of thing I’m saving?!)

Creepy! :shifty:

I have had this happen several times over the last couple of weeks.

From a practical point of view it’s awesome, because my filing structure on my MBP is enormous, and it takes me forever to navigate to the folder I want to “Save As” in when I toggle between News Articles, Vocabulary words, IT Articles, Photos, etc.

But I just don’t see how FireFox - or my Mac - could be smart enough to say, “Oh, Debbie is over at www.dictionary.com, so when she goes to save something, that means it should go in her “Vocabulary” folder!”

Am I losing my mind, or is this possible?? :-/

Sincerely,

Debbie

P.S. I’m not making this stuff up!!

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A-HA!!! Seeeee, I’m not crazy!!!

After posting this thread, I was reading about the Winter Olympics on the NY Times, and I went to save that article, and when I went to File > Save-As in FireFox, it defaulted to this folder…


Debbie > Personal > Entertainment > Movies

Just a minute ago when I looked up “panopoly” on www.dictionary.com, FireFox defaulted to…


Debbie > Personal > Reference > Vocabulary

Sincerely,

Debbie

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Hopefully the next Firefox innovation will be to include spell check warnings before allowing such thing to be archived. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m not really sure what you mean by ‘saving’ pages, though. Do you mean ‘bookmarking’?

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Gee, Ralph, you could have taken “the high road” and not embarrassed me and my not so great spelling…

When I read a web page that interests me, I do File > Save As in Firefox and save the webpage as an HTML file so I have an actual hard-copy of the page for all times.

I even do this for vocab words like “panoply” because there are lots of interesting things to read…

Debbie

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Ah, I see. The thing I don’t like about that is all the extra cruft that often comes with the page, such as menus and the like, so I tend to copy the text into a plain .txt file.

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I’m running Windows XP and usually browse with Firefox. If I have saved a file from a particular URL to a certain directory, the next time I download a file from that same URL, Windows will offer to Save As… in that same directory. Keeping track of commonly visited/download locations seems to be part of the O/S (although it could be a FF feature; I don’t really know). It does seem to notice to the filetype, too. I don’t know what the rules are… ie.URL then filetype and perhaps weighted by the frequency with which a certain directory is chosen, but it’s a convenient feature.

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Also WinXP, and FF is always doing what I’m asking:

Windows Explorer is remembering the last saved file type:

Somewhere in between the htm-code for a “complete webpage” is rewritten with referring to a new created directory/folder “saved-page_files”, in which all the images, css and all other attachments are saved.
And if you delete the main html-file in Win-Explorer, then also the directory/folder with attachments is gone to Trash.
Intelligent things, computers! :slight_smile:

Eh, maybe, but if I need the real html-code of a webpage, I go to View Source Code, and copy/paste that: before the intelligent machine is walking away with the code without saying what and why. :wink:

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Francky,

Thanks for the reply, but I don’t think you understood my OP. :blush:

Debbie