MAFF (Mozilla Archive Format File) is a file format produced by several FireFox addons:
Maf, the original, now abandoned.
Recent versions of FireFox do not allow addons to open these files. That is why OpenMAFF has been made.
OpenMAFF can open MAFF files, including files that contain several tabs, then send them to your Web browser.
OpenMAFF runs on Windows only.
OpenMAFF.exe
to a directory.C:\Users\_<user name>_\AppData\Local\Programs
OpenMAFF.exe
, in the directory you downloaded it to.If no Web browser is associated with the HTML file type, Windows may let you choose one.
A MAFF file basically is a Zip archive that contains the actual files that were saved by a Web browser.
If you want, you can do an experience: copy a MAFF file then rename its extension to Zip, then open the Zip file. You will see, or be able to extract, the files and directories the Zip/Maff file contains.
When OpenMAFF.exe
runs, it extracts the files the MAFF file contains.
These files are extracted to the temporary directory (usually C:\Users\_<user name>_\AppData\Local\Temp\Maff__xxxxxxxxx_
).
Then there are two options:
If there is one tab/html only in the MAFF, OpenMAFF tells Windows to open the file index.html
.
Windows will then open your Web browser.
If there are several tabs/html in the MAFF, OpenMAFF finds what application is your Web browser then runs it writing all the index.html
files as parameters on the command line.
The resulting command line is similar to that:
FireFox.exe "c:\...\xxx\index.html" "c:\...\yyy\index.html" "c:\...\zzz\index.html"`
As of september 2018, Edge does not seem to be able to open several files at once. Consequently, when you open a multi-tabs MAFF file, only the first tab is displayed by Edge. A workaround is to associate the HTML file type with another Web browser (I suggest FireFox).
Version 1.5 2019-01-22
Version 1.4 2018-10-28
Version 1.3 2018-09-08
Version 1.2 2018-09-06
Version 1.1 2018-09-05
Version 1.0 2018-09-04