no way to save some pages as MHTML?

LorenAmelang

Guess my problem is different from all these. Or maybe just nobody else tried reloading?

Whenever I try to open any mhtml file in Vivaldi, I get the dead bird. If I just reload the page with the circular arrow icon or Ctrl+R, it displays perfectly!

Has been happening for months across several Vivaldi versions. (In recent versions I have to click anywhere in the page before it will see any control characters - or let Windows see any!) This is on Windows 10 1803, 64-bit. I'm at the end of a 20+ mile series of WISP links, so my network is hopelessly random. Always saves perfectly. Well, Firefox won't open them, nor Chrome, but Internet Explorer will...

RasheedHolland

@LorenAmelang

I have got the same problem. When I try to open MHTML files I get the dead bird. Can this please be fixed? For the record, the files where saved as "Webpage, Single file" via the the "Save Page As" command.

horia

Dear @LorenAmelang & @RasheedHolland ,
thanks that you report your problems too! So it seems that not only win7 and vivaldi have this problem (as in my case), it is happening also with vivaldi and win10!
Thank you for your great solution (reload page!) I never came on this idea!

I found so far another little provisory solution for our common problem:

close Vivaldi, then
click on the file (mhtml) that you wish to open.

The file (more exactly windows) will force vivaldi to start and to show the file.
In my case, if I do it like this it works fine, with no error at all!

If, au contraire, I open a file while vivaldi is already open, then it does not work! (same symptom as yours).

It is quite an interesting story... And a long one

RasheedHolland

@horia

Thanks, will try those solutions, but the MHTML file should also be displayed when Vivaldi is already open, so seems like a bug. Actually, I have just tested it, and sometimes I get the dead bird, and sometimes not.

rainynight

Hi
I can't save proper .mhtml on stable debian gnu linux vivaldi 2.6.1566.49 (Stable channel) (32-bit) and it is so since ...years. It starts with --save-page-as-mhtml flag. The example is page with this thread. Vivaldi saves a plain html file with .mhtml extension. No images inside. When I try to open it with vivaldi I see blank page. I can open the file with vivaldi when I change the extension to .html but without pictures (except those linked directly from external server). The solution is to use "Save as MHT" extension for chrome.

On Windows 10 everything is OK.

haleba

Hi All,

I'm a long-time Opera user tired of the endless quirky issues and the new sketchy Chinese ownership and was overjoyed to find Vivaldi "got" MHTML. I used that save format all the time with Internet Explorer since PDF prints almost always wind up mangling/chopping the content, and hated splitting the file information using the "webpage complete" option because you couldn't share the page easily.

I was going to post a glowing report of this feature having just updated to Vivaldi 2.10 and having great success, but after testing a little further the review is "generally good ... and confusing".

I have a dual Win10-Linux(Ubuntu) system and this feature did not work under Ubuntu, outputting apparently "garbled" HTML as reported by others. Vivaldi will not render the garbled HTML at all, showing a white screen, even though the MHTML appears to load; in fact, an attempt to view the HTML code also results in a white screen. I have not seen that one before.

"OK, looks like a Linux issue", but then I tried this under Windows 10 and got beautiful results for one particular page, but only in "open" mode: the same failure occurred when I tried an MHTML save in incognito mode.

The two test URLs (with screenshots--please do not judge my choices--these simply caught my interest as I was testing):

"The Self-Help Movement That Is Upending American Christianity", medium.com (Win10, Ubuntu)

Notepad++ screens of Win vs Ubuntu output

"Opinion: The Conservative Case for Impeachment — and Removal", nytimes.com (Vivaldi open, incognito)

Screens of open vs. incognito output

Screenshot of Ubuntu Kate editor load of MHTML output

MHTML output, Vivaldi for Linux

One trick I learned doing this: this still works on NY Times even when it throws up the honkin' huge "View this page over our dead body" window if you go offline before loading the resulting MHTML file.

Hope Vivaldi can fix this.

System information (PII crossed out with "*---*"):

    Vivaldi			2.10.1745.21 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
    Revision		32aa7fcc41e7837f65963731df8d30a08099ede4
    OS	Windows 	10 OS Version 1903 (Build 18362.535)
    JavaScript		V8 7.9.317.32
    Flash			(Disabled)
    User Agent		Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.94 Safari/537.36
    Command Line	"C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --enable-audio-service-sandbox --save-page-as-mhtml
    Executable Path	C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
    Profile Path	C:\Users\*---*\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default

    
    -----------------------------
    
    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
    Release:        18.04
    Codename:       bionic
    
    Vivaldi	         2.10.1745.21 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
    Revision	     32aa7fcc41e7837f65963731df8d30a08099ede4
    OS	             Linux
    JavaScript	     V8 7.9.317.32
    Flash	         32.0.0.303 /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so
    User Agent	     Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.94 Safari/537.36
    Command Line	 /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service --save-page-as-mhtml
    Executable Path	 /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
    Profile Path	 /home/*---*/.config/vivaldi/Default

    dpkg -s vivaldi-stable
    Package: vivaldi-stable
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: web
    Installed-Size: 223401
    Maintainer: Vivaldi Package Composer <[email protected]>
    Architecture: amd64
    Version: 2.10.1745.21-1
    Provides: www-browser
    Depends: ca-certificates, fonts-liberation, libappindicator3-1, libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libatk-bridge2.0-0 (>= 2.5.3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.16), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcups2 (>= 1.4.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.5.12), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.22), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libx11-xcb1, libxcb1 (>= 1.6), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:5.0), libxi6 (>= 2:1.2.99.4), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.3), libxrender1, libxss1, libxtst6, wget, xdg-utils (>= 1.0.2)
    Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.0)
    Recommends: libu2f-udev, adobe-flashplugin
    Description: Experience the web in a whole new way with Vivaldi.
     Vivaldi is a browser that has the features you need, a style that fits and values you can stand by. Your browser matters. Take control with Vivaldi.
    Homepage: https://vivaldi.com

Pesala

@haleba The Save page as... is buggy on Windows too. Make sure that you select *.mhtml in Files of type:

Save Page As.png

haleba

@Pesala

Thanks, but I already thought that might be an issue, so in each case I made sure that the Save Page As... save dialog clearly said the format was (*.mhtml) and in the error cases the files were all saved by Vivaldi with mhtml extensions.

This has probably been reported but filling a bug report anyway.

Thanks again

haleba

FYI for those interested, this is an IETF standard. See

"MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)" (RFC 2257), Section 9.1: Example of a HTML body without included linked objects

As the screenshots show the good pages are conforming to the standard.

Will try testing this again when I have time and see if this is some kind of "hiccup" during the file conversion.