Firefox Scrapbook: What Happened & What to Use in 2026

What Was Firefox Scrapbook?

Firefox Scrapbook was an extension that let you save entire web pages — including their structure, images, stylesheets, and linked files — to a local archive. Users could then browse their saved pages offline, annotate them, and organise them in a tree structure.

It was particularly popular among researchers, journalists, and anyone who needed to preserve web content for offline reference.

What Happened to Firefox Scrapbook?

Firefox Scrapbook was built on Firefox's legacy XUL extension API. When Mozilla introduced the WebExtensions API with Firefox Quantum (version 57) in 2017, Scrapbook could no longer function. The original extension was discontinued.

A successor, Scrapbook X, attempted to bridge the gap but also became unmaintained. As of 2026, neither the original Scrapbook nor Scrapbook X work on current Firefox versions.

Best Firefox Scrapbook Alternatives in 2026

1. SingleFile (Web Extension — Chrome & Firefox)

SingleFile is the closest modern equivalent to Scrapbook. It saves a complete web page (HTML, CSS, images, fonts) into a single .html file.

• Available for Chrome and Firefox
• Saves pages as perfectly self-contained HTML files
• Supports batch saving, annotations, and search
• Actively maintained and free

Best direct replacement for Scrapbook's page-saving functionality.

2. Zotero

Zotero is a research tool that saves web pages, PDFs, and other sources for citation and organisation. Particularly useful for academic research workflows.

3. Archive.org's Save Page Now

For publicly accessible pages, archive.org/save permanently archives any URL. No install needed.

4. FileGrab (for Downloadable Files)

If what you specifically want from Scrapbook is the ability to download all files linked on a page — PDFs, documents, images — FileGrab handles this part of the workflow directly.

• Scan any page for all downloadable files
• Download them individually or as a ZIP
• Comes with scan history so you can revisit pages

FileGrab doesn't save the page itself, but if your goal was "archive all the PDFs on this research page," it does that better than Scrapbook ever did.

Scrapbook vs Modern Alternatives

Conclusion

Firefox Scrapbook is gone, but SingleFile fills the page-saving gap well. If your primary use of Scrapbook was gathering downloadable files from pages, FileGrab is a better-suited modern tool for that specific job.