I've long wished that Firefox would get compatibility with Microsoft's longstanding MHT format for saving complete webpages as single files. Not only does this extension do that, it also provides an open version that basically works by zipping up the product of the it's own version of the standard Save Webpage Complete feature of Firefox (though you can, as an option, make it use the browser's own version of said feature if you want to, or the Save Complete extension's). This makes the resulting files readable by anyone: all you have to do is unzip them and then open the html page inside like normal. The extension also has a useful conversion utility that will seek out all your Firefox webpage complete saves and turn them into .maff archives.
The only downside in Linux is that Gnome thinks that the resulting .maff file is a zipfile and tries to open it as such. I worked around this by adding Firefox as an option for opening zip files. It would be better if they could find a way to produce zip files that look like a distinct file format in Unix environments like OpenOffice does so you could cleanly associate the file format with Firefox. Still, it's a great extension. BTW, be sure to get the 1.0.0 preview version if you're using Firefox 4.
Update: It is possible to differentiate .maff files from .zip files in Gnome/Linux. This mailing list post has everything you need to know to figure it out. I might post detailed step-by-step instructions later.
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