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CO-Windler opened this issue Mar 21, 2025 · 2 comments
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X.com (Twitter) pages are saved incomplete. #1693

CO-Windler opened this issue Mar 21, 2025 · 2 comments

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@CO-Windler
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In X (Twitter) SingleFile copies only a short fragment (mainly the visible section) of the webpage instead of also the scrolled offscreen part above. This is not barrier-free and makes it e.g. impossible to archive e.g. all postings of a person or discussion thread. To preserve democracy and prevent fraud it is very important for users to stay capable to keep evidence by documenting a discussion in whole and not only individual screenshots.

(Tested with recent Firefox (136.0.2) on Linux Mint 20.1. X does make similar trouble with marking text by "select all" (ctrl-A) of the browser, so there may be a problem with the method how X.com overwrites on-screen text instead of loading additional parts to its end.)

@gildas-lormeau
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gildas-lormeau commented Mar 25, 2025

The scrolled offscreen content should be saved. Do you confirm the option Images > save deferred images is enabled? If necessary you can also increase the value of the option maximum idle time. Enabling the option zoom out the page can also help.

@CO-Windler
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Yes, with this setting it seems to save the whole page. But I had still to scroll to the top to save also the upper part of a Twitter page. It would be useful to have in the save file requester a simple checkbox or TXT mode to save only the text part of the entire page (or at least from the top to the visible position) without pictures, because Strg-A in the browser saves only the currently visible portion of a Twitter page.

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