Screenshot Extension for Firefox

2006/04/09

This extension might be handy for those who design, develop or test web sites: The Pearl Crescent Page Saver. It allows to create a PNG screenshot of the currently opened web page in Firefox 1.5+.

Not only the visible part, but optionally the whole page can be captured. The file can be 100% size or scaled down. Keyboard shortcuts can be configured.

UPDATE: Doesn’t work with all pages. Some examples: [1], [2], [3]. Possibly, Flash is the reason. On the other hand, it works well on some Flash sites.

UPDATE 2:: Doesn’t work well with framesets. It’s not possible to capture frame contents in whole length.

6 Comments

Bethany on 2006/04/09 at 16:37h GMT:

I will have to give this a try on my home computer. At work, we have a bunch of copies of SnagIt (http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp) which is really useful.

Marian Steinbach on 2006/04/09 at 17:35h GMT:

Yeah, SnagIt is really nice, though meanwhile pretty feature-bloated. Besides that, the firefox extension has zero memory footprint and installs an all OSes that can run Firefox. So it should be definitely worth trying for a bunch of people!

What I think is really nice, too, is the fact that the Pearl Crescent Page Saver extension is really fast capturing long pages. That takes quite a moment with SnagIt.

Florian on 2006/04/11 at 15:59h GMT:

Hi Marian

So ein Screenshot Plugin fÃ¼r Firefox gibt es schon seit einiger Zeit das genau dasselbe macht.

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=1146

Max Stockner on 2006/05/04 at 23:24h GMT:

I also noticed some problems with capturing frames. But i used until now the “workaround” if have to shot such a page, i am displaying only this page not the whole frameset. Capturing this page works like a charm and i never missed anything

@Florian:
Ja aber das macht die Screenshots Ã¼ber Java und ist sehr bescheiden in der Geschwindigkeit. Hat auch vielerlei Probleme mit langen Pages hab ich festgestell. Hatte die Lange im Betrieb. Aber die Pearl ist nun viel besser, die macht direkt die Screenshot Ã¼ber das neue JavaScript Canvas Model.

Chris Meisenzahl on 2006/11/14 at 16:58h GMT:

Nice, thanks very much.

Greg (Killer Aces Media) on 2008/01/23 at 05:21h GMT:

I’ve tried Pearl and SnagIt for a long time, but I recently discovered Screengrab!. It’s killer feature is the ability to crop and save just the portion you need. It saves you the extra step of cropping in photoshop/gimp.

I think that’s what Florian is saying too, but I don’t understand.

Screengrab extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146