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Why are many web pages failing to save, that previously saved ok.

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Timbuster
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I go to save a Complete Web Page, and I often get the yellow dot and it says 'failed'. I then use the RETRY option and it reports success. Unfortunately when I finally got around to checking some saved pages, I find many have only partially saved or are even just a blank page, so success was a lie. This is with pages I always save and later check - PayPal, GOG Cart, etc. I had one chance only to save those pages, so I am not very happy, as they were an important record. This has happened since updating past Firefox v61. I have had this happen in the past, but it has always been fixed by the next Firefox update, not this time. I am using Windows 7. I have very few Addons installed. Because of issues like this, I generally only update when I need to. If this cannot be solved, I will have to swap to another browser, which will not make me very happy.

I go to save a Complete Web Page, and I often get the yellow dot and it says 'failed'. I then use the RETRY option and it reports success. Unfortunately when I finally got around to checking some saved pages, I find many have only partially saved or are even just a blank page, so success was a lie. This is with pages I always save and later check - PayPal, GOG Cart, etc. I had one chance only to save those pages, so I am not very happy, as they were an important record. This has happened since updating past Firefox v61. I have had this happen in the past, but it has always been fixed by the next Firefox update, not this time. I am using Windows 7. I have very few Addons installed. Because of issues like this, I generally only update when I need to. If this cannot be solved, I will have to swap to another browser, which will not make me very happy.

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WestEnd
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They could've change their page codes or scripts to prevent saving their pages. What you want is something like Acrobat that can save the site as a pdf to access. Sites are nowdays protecting their site either by disabling rightclicks or any attempts to save them and Browser can bypass that.