About this extension

Hoardy-Web (also there) helps you to passively capture, archive, and hoard your web browsing history.
Not just the URLs, but also the contents and the requisite resources (images, media, CSS, fonts, etc) of the pages you visit.
Not just the last 3 months, but from the beginning of time you start using it.

Practically speaking, you install this and just browse the web normally while Hoardy-Web passively, in background, captures and archives web pages you visit for later offline viewing, mirroring, and/or indexing.
Hoardy-Web has a lot of configuration options to help you tweak what should or should not be archived and a very low memory footprint, keeping you browsing experience snappy even on ancient hardware (unless explicitly configured otherwise to, e.g., minimize writes to disk instead).

In other words, this extension implements an in-browser half of your own personal private passive Wayback Machine that archives everything you see, including HTTP POST requests and responses (e.g. answer pages of web search engines), as well as most other HTTP-level data (AJAX/JSON RPC/etc).

By default, this extension will save all captured data into browser's local storage, so it can be used standalone, but it implements other archiving methods if you want them.
To view your archived data, however, you will need to install at the very least the accompanying hoardy-web CLI tool (also there).

If you do not care about archival, you can also use this extension to log and later inspect HTTP traffic generated by various sleazy websites, even when they generate said web traffic on events that can not normally be inspected with browser's own Network Monitor (e.g. when a page generates HTTP requests when its window closes).

See project's documentation (also there) if the above makes little sense, or if you want more docs, or if you want to see in-depth comparisons to archiveweb.page, DownloadNet, mitmproxy, and other similar and related software.

- Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any of your captured web browsing data anywhere, unless you explicitly configure it to do so.
- Hoardy-Web DOES NOT send any telemetry anywhere.
- Both of the above statements will apply to all future versions of Hoardy-Web.

Hoardy-Web was previously known as "Personal Private Passive Web Archive" aka pWebArc.

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Release notes for 1.17.1

Changed

- Popup UI:

- Reverted most of the block reordering bit of popup UI rework of extension-v1.17.0.

The “Globally” block is near the top again.

- Edited the “Persistence” block a bit more.

Mainly, to stop graying out always-useful stat lines, even when the associated features are disabled, to prevent possible confusion there.

- Renamed some options and stat lines, mostly to make their names shorter to make popup UI on Fenix more readable.

- Toolbar button:

- Edited its title format to be much shorter, especially on Fenix.

- Reverted the ordering of parts there to how it was before extension-v1.17.0.

The (much shorter now) “globally” part is at the front again because otherwise the badge being at the front there too without an explanation of its format is kind of confusing.

- Core + All internal pages:

- Improved message handling infrastructure.

- Used it to improve initialization functions of all internal pages, improving efficiency and making the resulting UI much less flaky.

- The Help page:

- Documented what webNavigation permission is used for, improved the rest a bit.

- *:

- Renamed build.sh firefox target to firefox-mv2, for consistency.

Fixed

- UI:

- Fixed flaky rendering of Help and Changelog pages on Fenix.

They render properly now the very first time you load them, no reloads needed.

- Fixed duplication of history entries when navigating internal links.

- Fixed source links sometimes failing to being highlighted when pressing the browser’s “Back” button.

- Fixed some small CSS nitpicks.

- Popup UI + Documentation:

- Realigned some help strings with reality.

- Fixed some more mostly inconsequential things.

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