We take a lot of screenshots in a day’s time, and a good majority of them are of websites being displayed within our browser. Instead of needing to use an external application to snap the screenshots why not get an extension for Firefox that includes an incredible editor!
Fireshot is a relatively large extension (in terms of filesize) for Firefox that has just about everything you need. With it you can capture an entire website, including the area that you need to scroll to see, or you can just have it capture what you’re currently viewing.
After a screenshot has been captured you’ll be able to annotate the screenshot, crop it, and even blur/gray out an area. In the screenshot that I took above I had applied the blur and grayed out effects to the area around the article’s body in an effort to make the article itself standout.
After you’re done with a screenshot you can save it to your computer (PNG, JPEG, or BMP formats), copy it to the clipboard, email it, or send it to an external image editor.
Fireshot Homepage
Fireshot Video Demonstration
[via Mozilla Links]
Consider also Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic (263Kb). It does quite the same work but you can’t crop the screen shot. However you’ll find it at [pearlcrescent.com]
Page Saver doesn’t offer an annotation editor. It’s just for page capturing.
What about ScreenGrab extension ??
[screengrab.org]
the same: only capturing
Yay! More bloat to my already memory hungry Firefox. How useful!? Use SnagIt or ScreenshotCaptor or Faststone Capture instead.
sridhar is right, it is big;
but if you are going to use something else try: MWSnap, i have tried them all and this one is the best;
[mirekw.com]
i have tried Fireshot and it is fast, annotation is great fun and it works very well (if you have the extra memory);
it has one big limitation:
it takes no screenshot if you have a card open, like Tools>Options;
it just sits there; pitty that;
It’s nice, but no editor or annotation features as Wild pointed out.
Some people don’t like to install applications though, and this is a great tool for providing helpful screenshots.
That program is nice, but it is a bit outdated. It hasn’t been updated since 2002.
If you don’t want to install a FF extension, [superscreenshot.com] takes a full-page screenshot of any URL you give it, with several sizing options.
To those ppl that Ryan mentions, “Some people don’t like to install applications though”, I have a question for you:
Would you rather install something that works through out windows (across all the programs) or just in one app?
To give another example: I don’t understand the point of mouse gesture add-ons for Firefox when one can use the excellent StrokeIt.
Actually, there are good reasons for both of those things though. If you’re only using a specific feature in your browser, then why would you get a program that will just eat away at your memory all the time? Also, you have to consider the issue of cross-platform screenshots. All of the available screenshot tools in Linux aren’t very good, and this would be the first thing that I would want to use in a case like that.