Serious web page captures with FireShot
Posted by Percy Cabello on October 26th, 2007 • Tags:
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Among the several web screenshot capturing extensions available, FireShot stands out with its unique image annotation capabilities.

It adds a button to the toolbar which you can use to capture the entire web pages or just the currently visible portion. Note however that plugins like Flash are not captured and you will get a blank are where an animation still should be.

The screenshot is displayed in a new window along with tools for adding text, transparent shapes you can use to highlight some area, arrows and free hand drawing. Annotations are vector objects so you can easily drag and customize them, which to some degree compensates for the lack of an undo function.

FireShot

Annotated screenshots can then be saved as PNG, JPEG or Bitmap images, copied to the clipboard, emailed or sent to Paint (?) for further editing.

FireShot is provided at no cost by SmartSoft Team as a kind of trial for Screenshot Studio, its more advanced stand alone capture application.

For web captures it currently doesn’t get any better than with this extension. You can get FireShot at Mozilla Add-ons.

Comments
temp- said on October 27, 2007, 8:36 am:

this one is great, the only conn, is the fact the dont let me take off that big S icon near to the direction bar

Omnisilver said on October 27, 2007, 9:25 am:

It seems to be a very good extension … but : «FireShot is not available for Linux.»

:’(

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Havvy said on October 27, 2007, 2:42 pm:

How old is this extension? There is one already like it called “Screen grab!”. Other than the vector features, they are the same…

Jono said on October 27, 2007, 10:17 pm:

This extension adds a new tab to every new Firefox window you open (including popups). Very intrusive.

steve merball said on October 28, 2007, 4:30 am:

not available for linux

Percy Cabello said on October 28, 2007, 8:05 am:

temp, you’re right. The lack of a hotkey makes it necessary to keep the S button visible at all times.

Havvy, annotation (vectors) is what takes this extension apart.

Jono, do you mean the S button to every tab? I don see no tab on new windows.

Jono said on October 28, 2007, 8:43 am:

Percy, it seemed to me that when I opened a new Firefox window, alongside my home page I would also get a tab introducing the extension and advertising the paid version. I though that was OK, assuming that like most it would go away.
But the next time I opened up Firefox, I got the same extra tab. And then when I clicked on a link that opened in a popup window, it added the extra tab to that window too.

That, and the aforementioned toolbar button were the dealbreakers for me.

NOTICIAS-TIC.COM said on October 29, 2007, 4:23 am:

FireShot: Una de las mejores extensiones de Firefox para tomar pantallazos de una web

A la hora de capturar pantallazo de una web que estemos visitando disponemos de múltiples extensiones, sin embargo Fireshot nos proporciona algunas posibilidades únicas y que lo diferencias de los demás.

Esta extensión añade un botón a nuestra barr

Fireshot said on October 29, 2007, 8:48 am:

Hi, I’m the developer of this extension.

Jono: this is a bug definetily. Could you please start a topic describing it at http://screenshot-program.com/sup/frm13.htm so that we cold fix this issue?

I’d like to know the version of FF you use and whether error console displays any errors regarding Fireshot.

Thanks.

Fireshot said on October 29, 2007, 8:51 am:

Percy Capello, you don’t need to have S button visible everywhere. You’ve got necessary items at the context menu of the page.

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Jigar Shah said on November 1, 2007, 9:43 am:

Its Bad..!! It does not support Linux…Not cross platform….!!

temp- said on November 3, 2007, 3:05 pm:

well, at least for me, i tried taking of the big S thing but everytime i restar it came back

hope you’re the real deal Fireshot xP

Fireshot said on November 3, 2007, 11:56 pm:

You mean, “S” button is added to the menu bar every time you restart FF?

temp- said on November 6, 2007, 3:37 pm:

yep, just at the right of the direction bar, everytime i try, it work for the moment but the next time i start ff its there again

Fireshot said on November 6, 2007, 3:39 pm:

Please update to 0.20 version

Ken Saunders said on November 7, 2007, 11:50 am:

Awesome find!
I love this extension. I’ve been using Screengrab for a very long time but this is certainly a much better and more complete screen capture add-on.

A cool tip is that you can use Nuke Anything Enhanced (or something similar) to cleanup a page before capture.
Thanks Percy for featuring this and thanks to the developer.

P.S. Undo/Redo?

Mathew Hartnell said on April 24, 2008, 12:21 pm:

This extension adds a new tab to every new Firefox window you open

Tschöppy said on April 27, 2008, 2:41 am:

Hi’yall.

I saw here is the developer of the Fireshot in this thread. Is there any newer version of this addon what works with FF3b5? I found nothing when I searched for it.

Thanks,

Tschöppy

Fireshot said on April 28, 2008, 1:48 pm:

Hi there.
A new version supporting fx 3b5 will be available within a couple of days.

Ahmed said on May 16, 2008, 5:13 pm:

Ack! Not available for Linux!

Guy Cook said on May 30, 2008, 10:51 am:

In the new FireFox 3 RC1 the screen captures are blank. I too am awaiting the next version, at first I thought it was because I had to upgrade to the Pro version, that didn’t fix things. Great idea can’t wait for it to work with linux too.

Justin said on November 5, 2008, 4:17 pm:

FireShot grabs blank screenshots when trying to captue a SharePoint site. I wish it worked, I would use it more.

Justin said on November 5, 2008, 4:29 pm:

I was trying to do this in the IE tab within Firefox, but I found if I use FireShot in the Firefox rendering engine it works fine with grabbing a screenshot of SharePoint there.