Safari cannot save some web pages

Jan 18, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: MacTipster

Safari cannot save some web pages like http://www.amazon.com/Space-1999-Anniversary-Megaset-17DVD/dp/B000P6R5TI and some others.

Firefox does not exhibit this problem. I'm not sure if it's a bug in WebKit or just Safari (5.0.3).

To get Safari to save the page just click on the URL in the address field and rename the link and the Save button will become active. Just backspacing on the last character of the link and then re-entering it is sufficient.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. You can still print the page to PDF in Safari without doing this but if you want to save it as an HTML file, this will help on some of those problematic pages. Chrome and OmniWeb could both save the example page without trouble, so this looks like a Safari bug.]

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