Mozilla Archive Format
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| Filename extension | .maff |
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| Internet media type | application/x-maff |
| Magic number | 04 03 4b 50 |
| Developed by | Christopher Ottley, Paolo Amadini |
| Initial release | 4 May 2004 |
| Type of format | Web-archive, data compression |
| Container for | Web-pages |
| Extended from | ZIP |
| Open format? | Yes for the Specification of MAFF file format; (MAF Firefox Addon) under MPL 1.1, GPL 2.0, LGPL 2.1, or any later version of these licenses; Documentation is under Copyright; |
| Website | maf |
The Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF) is a web page archiving format provided by Firefox through an extension. It is used to save one or more web pages together with their associated audio, video, and other related web resources to a single file. Unlike MHTML, which uses MIME encoding within a single HTML file, MAFF compresses the page into a ZIP container file.
For alternative "page-as-a-file" formats, see MHTML (Created for Internet Explorer, compatible with many browsers), Webarchive (Safari), and Chrome's SingleFile extension (which uses the data URI scheme to package everything in a single .html file).
The extension no longer works on newer (as of 2017) versions of Firefox. The author has stated that future support will not be added.
MAFF is an open file format. The file format specification is published.
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