Request a feature…
Request features here. Maybe… just maybe… I’ll actually do them.
Requests so far
- Call Screengrab from the command line
- One-click save
Toggle context-menu and statusbar icon(done in 0.94)- Auto-save all pages visited
- Resize images
- Crop images
- Save a thumbnail with the image
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 am
Upload images to websites (like imageshack or my own blog)
April 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Copy the page then send it to some friends with email,such as Gmail is cool.
April 26th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Screengrab of flash sites
I noticed that I was not able to grab a flash build screen.
Would be really nice if this was possible
April 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Add a keyboard shortcut so that I can save an image (or page) that is displaying a mouse-over menu (or the like). Right now I have to take my mouse off of the menu to activate ScreeGrab and the menu I want to show goes away.
Thx!
R.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Might already be covered by the `One-click save’ item above: I would like Screen grab! to respect the rules set up by the `Download Sort’ extension - e.g. that .png files should always be saved to a specified directory. For some reason Download Sort does not recognize the png-files created with Screen grab!
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:19 am
Have an option to recognize Firefox’s default save location. That way it automatically saves without having the Save To dialog box appear.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
It would be great to have an option to show the captured screenshot in the browser after the capture. For a quick check, and so that I can possibily store it with the scrapbook extension.
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(It is also the top requested feature in scrapbook..
May 4th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I second or third (,fourth…) the command line option!
After some testing, it looks like Screengrab will pick up flash objects if they are a small part of the page (ex: adobe.com). Sites that are full flash (ex: 2advanced.com) will not be captured.
Dyanamic sites like Meebo.com are captured, which is great!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
i still use ‘old’ hardware a lot. many with limited cpu and memory. so i usually use the old firefox 1.0.8. because the 2.x is too huge and eat too much resources.
so. i really, really like to see this extension to works on ff 1.x
tia
May 8th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
anyway… i just found faststone capture that do similar thing and not depend on any browser.
tnx!
May 12th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I’d appreciate a third menu to call a command line application. The image should be copied to the clipboard if the command doesn’t include a path, for example “pngoutx.cmd /i” should not save the image on the disk but copy it into the clipboard, whereas a command like “pngoutx.cmd %s” should save the image on the disk (and not copy it into the clipboard) and call the pngoutx.cmd with the path of the saved image.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Your extension is amazing. I love it
There is one more thing I need, is to automatically create a new gmail message with the screenshot as an attachment.
In fact, every time I use screengrab I send the attachment by email. so that would be really great!
thank you very much.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
great extension…could you pliz pliz have an icon available in the toolbar so that it can be moved around unlike the rigid status bar
May 25th, 2007 at 8:02 am
I am sure you know khtml2png (http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/). I would be nice to have comparable tool based on firefox libraries. I am looking forward to command line version
Thank you very much for your extension.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Thunderbird support, I like to save nice looking e-mails to a folder for inspiration - currently I have to print the e-mail to a PDF. I’d love an option to export the viewpoint.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I am using selenium for web user acceptance testing and I’d love to be able to take some screenshots programatically during the test execution. This would be the ultimate and up to date extension. Therefore: +1 for the keyboard shorcut to save a file automacally without the user confirmation
Thanks for this cool tool anyway!
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:22 am
Is it possible to make a downloadable fix to the Version 0.7 — December 5, 2005 — 23 KB working with Firefox 1.5.0.12?
June 6th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
It works fine, but it does not allow me to paste in either an email or Word. For Word there is a workaround by first using paste special - bitmap. Would like to be able to paste directly after copying.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Make it so that the filename is automatically appended to the file, regardless of if you delete default name and save.
Other than that, a fine tool.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Sorry my English badly, I do not speak correctly English.
I want to modify the ScreenGrab so that whenever takes mozilla firefox it keeps the image in the hard disk (c:\image.png).
Can help me? thank you very much.
Greetings
Antonio
June 11th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
A button for the toolbar with all the options that you get with the right-click menu would be awesome! Or is it already there and I don’t see it?
June 11th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Would love it if you could have fields for metadata, filling in URL and date automatically.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Be able to save the entire window (which may be 3000px tall) into multiple JPGS each as a 8.5×11 page (or customizable).
June 21st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! vaqxfxutriy
June 24th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Add me to that list of requesting “command line grabbing”, this is the last thing that keep me switching away from Pearl Crescent Page Saver (they can’t grab flash content, but do support command line), so please, make screengrab perfect, thanks
June 26th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
ScreenGrabber! 0.93 worked great when capturing the graphical output of my Javascript-based family tree program (very wide, 7800 by 5400 pixels, 250KB as a PNG, 167MB (!) in RAM), but Firefox memory usage jumped to 250MB and stayed there. Would it be possible to add a “Clear Clipboard” option?
July 1st, 2007 at 12:57 am
I would love it if Screengrab had an XPCOM interface, so you could call it from javascript, then get the result back as a dataURL. See https://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/toolkit/
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:32 am
I can grab a screen via the context menu when I’ve opened a dropdown, but although it stays open on the screen it isn’t included in the grabbed image.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:45 am
This software is amazing.
The only thing I would like to see in it to make this software perfect is the ability to choose to have the web address on the captured file.
Aca Capture Pro has this feature and sometime when I want to have the link in the file I have to use Internet Explorer with Aca Capture. This is the only reason I don’t use Screengrab 100% of the time.
If you could add a similar feature, that would be awesome!
July 6th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I want some Java API with parameters like URL and image file path and API creates the image and saves on file system.
Can I use it on the machine where Firefox is not installed ?
I will include some JARs or dlls or so files in my Java runtime classpath.
Is it possible ?
July 10th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Would be great if there was an option to include browser chrome or not — sometimes it is useful, e.g. to show the title tag in the browser title bar.
July 14th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Suggestion: “Resize Page”, allows you to resize Firefox’s horizontal width so that the visible area being Grabbed is of a specified width.
For example: I wish to save several documents every week, but I want the documents to all be the same monitor-friendly or printer-friendly width, no matter what my screen resolution is.
There is no other method for resizing Firefox and knowing its internal dimensions.
July 18th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I found a workaround to capture a screen whilst the mouse is over something say a flash navi: click on your bottom right corner Screengrab icon, click on “Save…”, return mouse to where you want it to be on the screen, hit right arrow, then enter, viola!
Still, I hope that you’d implement a shortcut key. Thanks! Love Screengrab!
July 24th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I want make it on java, i am interesting in know if you think that it’s possible. Please answer to my e-mail. sorry, my english is not very good.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Great extension!! Thanks for all your hard work.
I just wanted to add one more request for a command line interface.
July 26th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Great extension. It would be useful if there was an option to include the address of the website somewhere on the capture itself.
July 27th, 2007 at 2:24 am
It would be nice to have a file format selector in context menu so you can change file format at any time without accessing Tools -> Addons -> screengrab -> Options.
Sorry about my bad english.
July 28th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Hi,
Nice Extension.
If someone just wants to immediately copy the grabbed image to clipboard, so please add an option to the Settings which if selected, the grabbed image is immediately copied to Clipboard,
so
the Menu will only be like this:
ScreenGrab->
Complete….
Visible Portion…….
Selection….
and therefore the Menu will be shortened to just 1 level.
and if one does not want the feature the Menu will be as it is in the present version.
Thanks
July 31st, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I think scheduling could be a great advantage !
Thanks for your work !
July 31st, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I would really like to be able save webpage screens en mass. I have several pages of a website open, and i need screenshots of all of them to compare between browsers.
It is so much better than taking screen shots and pasting them, and the canvas works so much better than jpg option.
Really impressive.
Thank you.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
After sometime i cannot remember why i saved given image. Is there anyway i can add comments when i save images.
BTW: Thank you very mush for this nice tool. It is really helpful.
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:14 am
Upload images to a websites, like imageshack or my own blog/web site.
It could be possible to provide an php script to treat the request.
I can try if you send me the source.
Thanks and congratulation for your great job !
August 10th, 2007 at 2:04 am
It would be great if ScreenGrab would invoke a program via command line, passing the image AND optionally the URL from which the image originated. Then, anyone could write a program to handle things like uploading to a website, etc.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
I would like to second the command-line screen grab feature request. Thank you!
August 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I would like add an icon of Screengrab in the toolbar.Thanks
August 25th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
to capture the browser also in the screenshot!
August 27th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I think, if you are making selection, and you reach edge of a browser, Screengrab should scroll site.
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
HOTKEY!
September 4th, 2007 at 1:57 am
I hope it can save an image of flash components in a website (well it sometimes does)…PrintScreen Key can do it ;o) but you still have to open an imaging program to save it…thanks! nice work!!!
September 13th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I really like this extension and would like to talk to you regarding development of some of the features you have listed.
I’d especially like to see the ability for command line control and would be willing to help fund development if required.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
It would be great to have an option to invoke ScreenGrab from the Tools menu.
September 19th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Would be nice to have the screenshots saved directly to an online free image host like — http://www.imagebam.com . Willing to contribute for the development hours. Thanks for this great tool!
September 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Command-line support would be great! So you can use it easily as a service on your server…
September 24th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Andy,
I made some modifications to the code to allow for instant upload of the screenshots. I think this would make a great addition to the next release of Screen Grab!
Anyway, here is the link to the extension page:
http://www.imagebam.com/screengrab_upload_firefox_extension
Cheers,
Ivan
September 25th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Andy,
Here is the idea with the auto upload to an online service. I think its a great added feature to those who want to share with others quickly.
http://www.imagebam.com/screengrab_upload_firefox_extension
Maybe this feature can be added to the next release?
Thanks,
Ivan
October 8th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Hi Andy,
would it be possible to one-click print a web page. Maybe it could store the png file in a temp dir and call the browser print dialog.
Thanks a lot for this tool - it is great!
Cheers
Phil
October 11th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Please please please make it command line firefox compatable!
October 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Screengrab is incredibly useful. Is it possible to adjust the compression level for PNG files? I’d like to use the Canvas implementation but the file size is too big. The Java implementation does a better job of compressing the PNG files.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I really want a feature that whenever you hit refresh it takes a screenshot. When your designing a website from scratch you can get a timeline of all the refreshes, put that into a flick though effect and it would look pretty neat.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Hi.
I use it to capture maps images to avoir manually pasting them together. It’s great quality from now.
Nice JOB!
Was just wondering the maximum size of the images screegrab was able to grab. (for now i’ve been able to go to 5000×5000 without any problems). But it seems the max.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
It would be great of you could add the ability to mark some areas of the screen with red circel or anything else tha gathers the attention of the viewer…
We use ur plugin a lot in the support and if would help not to open a full feature grafics software just to add an arrow or a circle to an image and get out again….
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 am
Please also add hotkey to 0.94, and release it asap. thanks for the great addon.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Appending the timestamp to the file name is nice for making it unique, but would be more useful if it were actually readable: _20071026_133921.png, e.g.
Also, another variation/option would be useful if it just sequentially numbered/named the files, rather than including the page’s (long?) . There’s a generic Windows utility called ScreenPrint32 that gives you a number of options for constructing the file name: prefix + counter, prefix + date-time, date-time, or prompt. It also lets you set the default folder. (It only captures what’s visible on the screen when it’s hotkey is hit, which is why your addon is really, really nice.)
Good job, in any case…
November 5th, 2007 at 6:29 am
- Make upload to image site configurable. Or make it such that others can make addon for the same. Something like API.
- Some annotation facility will be great. I have seen them on FireShot..(Its Rubbish…not cross platform)
November 5th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Some Toolbar Icon will be great. So tht i can move it to All-in-one sidebar. Not status bar, No Contextmenu..!! Both are over crowded.
November 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Making possible to save rendered page before or after every request would turn this into a very useful bug reporting/ tutorial creating tool. Doing this manually each time is frustrating.
Also a keyboard shortcut for automatialy interactionless save to the file would be good.
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for this nice addons its brill.
Just a note for those with firebug, its conflict with screengrab. You will need to disabled firebug before taking shot screengrab.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:21 am
Can we have a Shortcut Key assigned to this tool?
Not sure if it will help, but as I see it now, I don’t have any way of grabbing javascript error messages popping up. I believe a shortcut key would help this. but then again, it might not, since the grab is at the browser level.
Any toher suggestions/ways to grab error messages popping up in window would be great
December 4th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
A keyboard shortcut would be very, very nice.
The shortcut should also have a configurable default action - saving the entire page, or copying a selection, etc.
December 7th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Thank you for an excellent tool. I have found one little shortcoming though. When saving a file and entering a custom file name it is currently necessary to type the .png extension manually. If it is not the file is saved without an extension.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
We need a version for ff 3.0 beta 2
December 16th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Thanks for this great tool!. Feature request: keyboard shortcut for saving pages, also it would be great if it had the option in files–>Save page as–>Tipe (dropdown).
@Atreya Srivathsan: nice to meet you. I use this little app for those tasks -screen capture- http://www.xuebrothers.net/misc/hotscrn.htm
it is small and unobtrussive, check it out. Hope this helps
December 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
What steve said. Update the version.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:06 am
Without a doubt: being able to upload screengrabs to a Flickr-account.
December 31st, 2007 at 9:13 am
There is a lot of large web pages on the net and when ScreenGrab! refuses to take an image it kind of pisses me off. I was trying to take a screenshot of http://www.discogs.com/artist/Paul+van+Dyk and it would not work. It’s as if it looked at the height of the page and refused to even try. So I would like it if the next version would support pages with a height of 100,000 pixels or more. I have 4 extensions installed for taking screenshots of web pages and only one works with really big pages. I have ScreenGrab! which I love but wont even try if the page is over 30,000 px high, FireShot which use 900+ MB of ram and then crashes Firefox, Save As Image which dose not want to save the complete page, and GraphicsEx which dose work with large pages… so far…. I like the Auto-save all pages visited request and maybe as a bonus feature that has nothing to do with images or maybe an idea for another extension but I would like to have something that can auto-save the source code of every page I visit into a single text file.
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Please update the extension to support Firefox 3.0b2 (or even better to 3.0).
January 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Awesome tool man, thanks.
My suggestion is to build an upload feature in to integrate with imageshack,photobucket, etc… like what imagebot does. Then you’ll have not a tool but a complete solution…
January 10th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Support for pages with a height of up to 10,000,000 pixels.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:18 am
+1 Keyboard shortcut
+1 Option to open the just-saved image
Thank you guys so much, this add-on makes my life a lot easier
January 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
> Please update the extension to support Firefox 3.0b2
> (or even better to 3.0).
Yes indeed. I find myself interrupting my FF3 session and starting FF2 just in order to use this awesome tool again.
(You know… Pearl Crescent is already there. Beat the competition.
)
January 20th, 2008 at 12:16 am
+1 for a keyboard shortcut too
Great tool!
January 21st, 2008 at 11:06 am
what do you need to make this feature “Call Screengrab from the command line” possible?
money? how much?
best regards
benny
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Hi. thank you for giving us that great plug in! It’s just gorgeous
I wonder if you could implement a “multi-frame-scroll-Shot-mode”
-Let me explain in my very bad english
Well sometimes I meet the problem, that I have a pages with 2 or more frames. Ex. Upper and lower part. the upper part always stays same. but the lower part sometimes needs to be scrolled down more… What does it need you to let Screengrab make a screenshot with the Upper frame and the fully scrolled down lower part ??
I wonder if you got the idea out of my terrific english
regards, man
>done an awsome job
January 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Can you add a keyboard shortcut, like ALT+F12 or customizable
thanks
January 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Hiho,
very nice plug in, but I miss one feature: the quality of the picture like JPG-Save-
Best regards
Michael Staehle
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hi!
I want to have a third menu option “Mail to a friend” to automatically attach the screenshot to a mail.
Thanks for this great tool!
Sebastian
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Screen Grab to Flickr
One other person has made this request (#74)…
It would be great to have screen grab upload saved screens or selections to a flickr account. During the upload process you could assign titles, descriptions, url of original images, tags, etc.
This way I could actually find the screen grabs that I save.
Great extension!
Treye Rice
Austin, Texas
February 7th, 2008 at 7:01 am
I’d really appreciate HOTKEY’s function in screengrab. it’d really help me.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:11 am
+1 vote on keyboard shortcut, which defaults to last saved location (or something like that) so nothing more need be done other than hit the shortcut. That would make it sort of like the Evernote or OneNote plugins: just one press and the page is saved.
+1 on URL and timestamp somewhere in the image, at the top or bottom, where ever is easiest. I really need the URL. The timestamp I don’t need so bad.
+1 on thanks for a great app that is just what I need for my job.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Would be nice to see a updated version for Firefox 3.0b3.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I have to second the request for a keyboard shortcut, it would make this make this great extension totally perfect!
Thanks and keep up the good work!!!
February 27th, 2008 at 5:21 am
This extension is superb, well done.
One feature that would be wonderful is print… (alongside save… and copy…)
Quite often I want to print a web page under development (as displayed, not as printed) and mark it up for developers to amend.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
+1 for a Keyboard Shortcut/Accelorator
Thanks for the screengrab extension!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Many have posted that programmatic (e.g., perhaps JavaScript) capture on each button click would be great for web site problem resolution and training. This is the very reason I’ve been scanning this page (and others). If anyone knows a mature application/extension which can help enable integration of web application server logs with GUI screen shots and user button clicks - please let me know. It sounds like JavaScript powered APIs would likely work (assuming the APIs allowed designation of appropriate user/system configuration properties).
March 17th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Doens’t work with Flash (Adboe Flex2).
March 20th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I agree with comment #23.
Please add a setting to allow a page to be saved in multiple sections. It would make printing much easier.
Keep up the good work!
March 20th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Need some keyboard shortcut please ^^
March 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
why isnt the source available.. then i can make it for firefox 3
March 27th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
As said before: A keyboard shortcut would be very helpful.
Thanks for this great extension!
March 30th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Unless I’m missing an existing capability, would appreciate being able to drag selection beyond the confines of the visible window, in other words, to scroll during selection if needed.
Thanks for a nicely integrated idea.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:33 am
When we will have it for Firefox 3 ?
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Hello, is there any way of calling this from Perl/C#Mono/C++/etc? I see you are working on a command line version, but I would like to call this directly from my code.
-Thanks and good job
April 4th, 2008 at 11:34 am
send screengrab with the website url to blog
April 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The two main controls are “Save …” and “Copy …”. Is it possible to add a third - namely “Print …” to avoid having to copy/paste through a graphics program? Not a bigf deal, just a convenience. Thanks.
April 12th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Automatic periodic screenshot feature to keep track of visual changes on the site that other programs can’t.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
All the features that Web Snapper has. Would like the ability to save it as PDF with selectable text and clickable links in PDF.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
My favorite firefox extension! So much cleaner than printing to PDF. Thank you!
My feature request is to be able to set a default screengrab. For example, 99% of my screengrabs are to save complete page. But each time, I have to do right click > ScreenGrab > Save > Complete Page. It’d be great to set the default, then just right click > ScreenGrab. Of course, if I need something different than default, then I don’t mind going through the menu.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:20 am
hi, i liked your extension.please provide the facilities like adding annotations and editing the images.that would be great.
thanks
brajesh
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
i love that extension so i’ll put it also here..
(to help fellow users ;))
to make ScreenGrab work with FF3:
1. download `screengrab_-0.93-fx.xpi`:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/14983/screengrab_-0.93-fx.xpi
2. .xpi is actually .zip file, so extract `install.rdf` from downloaded `screengrab_-0.93-fx.xpi`
3. edit `install.rdf` - gotta find the line with `em:maxVersion` and change the value from `3.0a3` to something higher like `8.0` ;))
4. put the modyfied `install.rdf` back to the `screengrab_-0.93-fx.xpi` and install it - looks like it works on FF3b5..
April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I use this extension to save roughly 20 images daily (captured from the Urban Dead MMORPG) for the map shown on that webpage. One problem I have is that the images on the page are not square, but the ones I upload must be. Having a resize feature would help me a LOT (as long as it allowed non-proportional resizing) and even more so if you could set default dimensions to resize to, perhaps based on the web address being viewed.
Another very useful feature would be the ability to select specific HTML entities and capture only those selections.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:42 am
I think when i choose selection i should be able to scroll down the page. At the moment the choices are “all of the page” , “all thats visible on the page” and a “selection WITHIN WHATS VISIBLE”.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I want to call screengrab as a command line tool like
“firefox -screengrab http://example.com ” > screenshot.png”