MetaProducts Inquiry makes Internet research a snap! Collect, organize and view information from the Web on your terms, quickly and easily.Comments on:

By: eVr

eVr — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:30:36 +0000

This program is a crap. Here is my reasons :
1.It not registered in Vista x32 SP2 even with Administrator privileges.
2.It not integrates into Opera 10.10
3.It makes 7 processes to autorun after install(!)
4.It makes 323 registry records (!)

By: Lu Hulu

Lu Hulu — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:23:49 +0000

#25 JV,

What is the registry path for your comment on “For re-installation, the key may be found in the Registry.”

Anybody knows?

By: goodgotd

goodgotd — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:03:39 +0000

learning curve indeed. finally found the right click>inquiry>save page in ff, but I’m still unsure if it’s saving the page as I have it blocked down to size with noscript or not. tentatively, I’ll give it a positive go for usability testing.

By: Stephen B. Cohen

Stephen B. Cohen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:08:12 +0000

If you have to ask why this is better than just saving a page:

You can organize the saved pages hierarchically, annotate them, etc.

There are some good commercial alternatives:

MyBase + Web Collect
Surfulater
Web Research

By: watcher13

watcher13 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:22:41 +0000

Actually, there’s a Firefox plug-in:

http://www.metaproducts.com/download/mpint.xpi

By: GoodGotd

GoodGotd — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Am I missing something, or does the firefox integration require I pay for one of the metaproducts offline browsers? when I open up the options for the extension it tells me “unable to detect any installed MetaProducts download manager. please visit the site to install software: http://www.metaproducts.com”

ok, installed the free ‘download express’, but still don’t see any way to save pages to inquiry without the built-in browser. strange.

By: Fubar

Fubar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:47:49 +0000

I did notice some interesting benefits and problems with MetaProducts Inquiry. It can save a webpage to MHTML when IE8 won’t, but it truncates the title, messes up the format (badly), and uses the wrong fonts. UnMHT works much better (but it doesn’t support IE). Microsoft has various problems displaying MHTML files. The Preview Host, used for the Preview Pane in Windows Explorer, can screw up. IE8 can screw up (although I think that’s for MHTML files which were saved by an earlier version of IE or other software). Sometimes, Opera can display an MHTML file which IE8 won’t, and vice versa.

By: Myself

Myself — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:50:27 +0000

From the screenshots, I don’t see anything better that what Opera browser’s left-panel bookmarks offer for free. Are they kidding us?

By: Cad Delworth CEng MBCS CITP

Cad Delworth CEng MBCS CITP — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:37:52 +0000

Shame that it doesn’t appear to support Iron browser.
I wouldn’t have Firefox on my PC even if you paid me!

By: Accubuff

Accubuff — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:22:26 +0000

For #28 Saul The Portable Offline Browser v5.7 application from MetaProducts is a very professional tool. There is also an extensive product comparison chart. It all depends on what kind of use you need. Offline browsers can also be freeware - if you occasionally need to download a complete website then that's enough.