Mozilla Archive Format

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Mozilla Archive Format
Filename extension .maff
Internet media type application/x-maff
Magic number 04 03 4b 50
Developed by Christopher Ottley,[1] Paolo Amadini[1]
Initial release 4 May 2004 (2004-05-04)
Type of format Web-archive, data compression
Container for Web-pages
Extended from ZIP
Open format? Yes for the Specification of MAFF file format;[2]
(MAF Firefox Addon)[3] under MPL 1.1, GPL 2.0, LGPL 2.1, or any later version of these licenses;
Documentation is under Copyright;[4]
Website maf.mozdev.org/maff-file-format.html/

The Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF) is a web page archiving format provided by Firefox through an extension.[5] 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.[6] Unlike MHTML, which uses MIME encoding within a single HTML file, MAFF creates a ZIP container file.[7]

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).

Format Licensing

MAFF is an open file format. The file format specification is published.[2]

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Sources cited

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