Offline Browser, Proxy Server, Cache for viewing web pages without the Internet

 The following is a work in progress to find a way to view web pages without the internet.

How to Enable Offline Browsing in Chrome - an experimental feature within Chrome and like browsers.

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/windows-offline-browsers/ - a good list of offline browsers

https://proxy-offline-browser.com/professional/Installation.html - MM3 Web Assistant. This functions as a proxy and automatically saves the webpages that have been visited. However the free version does not handle HTTPS. The benefit is that users do not need to specify which sites to save specifically.

HTTrack Website Copier - seems to be the best so far. Will test soon.

WebCopy - similar to HTTrack but not JavaScript....

Wiki for Offline browsing

1. Download the linux version: http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html
2. On Linux, open a terminal and run sh /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.sh
3. Note that the shell script is a wrapper for java -Xmx256m -jar /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar
4. Path of jar file /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar

Or when doing this from within docker

# on host of containers

docker run -it ....alpine

# inside the container

apk add wget

wget https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/download/v4.6.5.1911/xowa_app_linux_64_v4.6.5.1911.zip

apk update

apk get openjdk11

Notes Video Editing

 

https://au.oberlo.com/blog/best-free-video-editing-software

I'll add comments to help narrow down even further for myself basically - but others may find it helpful too.

Blender - originally for 3D animation. I've also heard about its not-so-easy to learn aspect, though it has lots of features. But I won't be trying this.

Lightworks - the Free version has a limit of 720p. I've used another converter to convert to 1280x720 and compare with the original and very common 1920x1080 size. The 720 one is noticeably fuzzier. So I won't be testing this further.

Shortcut - 

While the cut function seems OK, the Export is difficult to configure. Pressing the Export button does nothing. In one case when it did export, the file is more than twice the original.

OpenShot

• not really that straight-forward to use without using any help
• Export to a lot of formats, but for some reason, the output is 10 times larger than the original. Why it doesn't use the exact compression level of the input?

Avidemux

• BEST so far
• Small footprint, about 80MB fully installed (according to the installation dialog)
• Best Feature - COPY - this option in the video encoder format allows it to use exactly the same video format as the input. So if there are no edits being made, the new output is exactly the same size. This is very useful in comparison with other software above which, in most cases, result in an output which is larger than the input video file.

Kapwing Online Editor

• limited to 7 minutes  clip for free version