Screengrab!

A minor release to address the complaints of Screengrab 0.96 not working at all on pages with Flash or Java Applets!

This affects people with Java versions 6u10 & 6u11 and is due to an issue Sun introduced with the release of the new Java Plugin. This is fixed in 6u12 and is therefore a highly recommended Java update.

If Screengrab 0.96.1 detects either of these broken versions of Java it will play it safe and pretend that Java is disabled instead of silently failing.

You can download it from addons.mozilla.org.

Please let me know any issues that you might have with functionality that doesn’t work anymore, or let me know stuff that DOES work now.

Refer to my previous post for info about it.

Thanks!

It’s just pending AMO approval (as usual). As soon as its out, you should get an auto-update from them so please don’t ask me for it early!

This one doesn’t add too many new features – you’ll have to wait for the next release for that.
What I’ve done for 0.96 is completely gut the innards of Screengrab and then present the old interface over the top. But in doing so, I’ve fixed some things…

Fixed in 0.92

• Pages that didn’t capture in full, now should (unless they’re really long – still not fixed that)
  Flash and Java should always capture automatically now as long as you have Java installed.
• You no longer need to pick Java or Canvas modes – Screengrab now does a grab with canvas and then fills in Flash and Applets by grabbing them in Java mode. It’s the best of both worlds and you don’t have to lift a finger.
• Copying to the clipboard should now be MUCH more reliable. Pasting from it should also be significantly more successful and work in all programs (I hope).

There’s now a few options available in about:config for those who can’t wait for a release with real changes to the preferences panel. The ones people care about are…

extensions.screengrab.useJavaIfAvailable
Set this to false if you never want to use Java. If you’re one of those people who hates it for some irrational reason then go nuts and turn off the most useful feature in this extension.

extensions.screengrab.showIconInStatusBar
Set this to false to get rid of the icon in the status bar.

extensions.screengrab.showInContextMenu
Set this to false to get rid of the menu in the right-click context menu.

extensions.screengrab.jpgImageQuality default:75%
Use this to specify a value for jpg quality. Up to 100 should work fine.

Very soon my pretties Screengrab will be awesome and I’ll retake the crown of most awesome web page capturing tool thing from those young upstarts who came on the scene later than me and did a good job!

Damn them all to hell…

I’ve just been reading the comments on AMO https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/reviews/display/1146?show=20&page=2 and while the feedback is all lovely, it seems that people don’t like the icon!

I’m deeply hurt! I made that icon myself – I sweated over it for minutes as I took 3 images and stuck them on top of one another.

So I’ve decided to take action!! SOMEONE MAKE ME A BETTER ONE!

Please! Feel free. If you make and I like it, I’ll use it, include it and cite you in the About box in the app and on the website.

I can’t offer anything else as a reward. You’ll get kudos and the knowledge that your logo will appear in the browsers of somewhere between 250,000 (the number of active users I have) and 1.4 million (the number of downloads for this thing so far) people. You’ll obviously have to be giving me some sort of unlimited license to use it for promoting Screengrab or something, since that’s really the only tenable way this thing could work.

I’ll also post all of the submissions on a page and maybe people could vote? I reserve the right to overrule you all though! Democracy in action!

So if anyone ever reads this website, and wants to do this, please make me a better logo! PLEASE!

I always liked the idea of a fist with a long web-page trailing out of it like ticker-tape, but I am (obviously) an idiot who (thankfully) can’t draw…