||Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird
||and They have disguised their archival files to a point that
||it is almost impossible to migrate them to another operating system
|| John  White

|As for saving your archival files are you taking about Favorites and emails?
| Keith Stanier

If I understand correctly, the OP used the wrong word
and is referring to **cached** Web pages / embedded images / whatever
(what M$IE calls Temporary Internet Files).

How Gecko browsers do these is a leftover from Net$cape and *IS* a mess.
Gecko doesn't use extensions on cached files and gives them gibberish names.
This is one of the few things I miss about Internet Exploder[1]:
With IE, if you didn't do a *save this page* / *save this image*,
you can theoretically go back and get it from the cache[2].

If you want to save an entire Web page as a single file,
well, Gecko needs to play catch-up with M$ on that as well. 
The Usenet Archive -- Support++MHT.Files


[1] Gecko for me since December 2002.  Opera is my fall-back browser.
Internet Exploder is blocked from 'Net access via the software firewall.

[2]  It sounds like the OP never clears his browser cache
and ISTM it would take an eternity to find an item he's after anyway.
(Browser cache files were never intended to be used as he trying to
--not even Internet Exploder's.)

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