Mozilla Archive Format
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The Mozilla Archive Format is a web page archiving format provided by Firefox (via the an extension) for saving one or more web pages together with its associated audio, video, and other related web resources in a single file. It is not the same as the MHTML
MHTML
MHTML, short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine resources that are typically represented by external links together with HTML code into a single file. The content of an MHTML file is encoded as if it were an HTML e-mail message, using the MIME type multipart/related...

 file format, which uses MIME
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts...

 encoding to store all the different page components as a single file. Rather, MAFF uses a ZIP
ZIP (file format)
Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is...

 file as the container.

For alternative page-as-a-file file formats, see MHTML
MHTML
MHTML, short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine resources that are typically represented by external links together with HTML code into a single file. The content of an MHTML file is encoded as if it were an HTML e-mail message, using the MIME type multipart/related...

 and Webarchive
Webarchive
The webarchive file format is available on Mac OS X and Windows for saving and reviewing complete web pages using the Safari browser. Support for webarchive documents was added in Safari 4 Beta on Windows; Safari 3 on Windows does not support the format....

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