Serious web page captures with FireShot
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.
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.
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October 27th, 2007 at 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
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October 27th, 2007 at 9:25 am
It seems to be a very good extension … but : «FireShot is not available for Linux.»
:’(
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October 27th, 2007 at 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…
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October 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
This extension adds a new tab to every new Firefox window you open (including popups). Very intrusive.
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October 28th, 2007 at 4:30 am
not available for linux
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October 28th, 2007 at 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.
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October 28th, 2007 at 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.
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October 29th, 2007 at 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.
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October 29th, 2007 at 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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November 1st, 2007 at 9:43 am
Its Bad..!! It does not support Linux…Not cross platform….!!
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November 3rd, 2007 at 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
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November 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
You mean, “S” button is added to the menu bar every time you restart FF?
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November 6th, 2007 at 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
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November 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Please update to 0.20 version
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November 7th, 2007 at 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?
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April 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
This extension adds a new tab to every new Firefox window you open
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April 27th, 2008 at 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
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April 28th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Hi there.
A new version supporting fx 3b5 will be available within a couple of days.
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Guy CookMay 30th, 2008 at 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.
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Ack! Not available for Linux!
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