Screengrab

Friday, Apr 2, 2010

Save Web pages as image files on your desktop or as items on your clipboard. Capture what you see in a window, an entire Web page, or a frame. A great tool for referencing and talking about the Web.

Screenshots are the bread and butter of my work and life. All day long, I think and talk about Web pages—but I work at home. I can point someone to a Web page with a link, but how do I show them a specific section or bit of content? Easy: with a file I create using Screengrab.

The Screengrab icon lives in the bottom right of your browser and to me looks like a yellow square edged in blue. Sometimes I forget which is Screengrab and which is Xsticky, but it’s all good. Click the icon and “save” or “copy” the “complete page”, “visible portion”, “selection” or “window” to create your file or add an image to an open document.

Depending on how you use the Web, Screengrab can make life amazingly simpler.

Post from Elise Allen, who counts Screengrab among essentials like pens, stamps and galoshes. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. Dener

    Prior to Firefox 3.6 I used this one, almost the same thing but easy upload function: https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/firefox/addon/7889

    April 2nd, 2010 at 5:16 pm

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  2. Dener

    Checked the version with easy upload? http://www.imagebam.com/screengrab_upload_firefox_extension

    April 2nd, 2010 at 5:27 pm

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  3. marco mogollon

    Excelent… thnaxs a lot to share with us…..

    April 2nd, 2010 at 7:03 pm

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  4. OVI

    Good add-on for taking snapshots of websites, but still it can be more developed! 4/5 ****

    April 2nd, 2010 at 7:19 pm

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  5. Dayve

    Great Firefox add on, thanks a bunch.

    April 2nd, 2010 at 7:20 pm

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  6. Tharmas Erthona

    If this had a entry on the right click context menu it might be worth it. It seems like it takes about as many steps as just hitting print screen, then pasting it in paintbrush. I guess I will try it, but without it being on the context menu I will probably forget that it is there. I already have more little boxes at the bottom of my screen than I want, or generally can remember what they are for.

    April 2nd, 2010 at 9:16 pm

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    1. Gavin

      it does appear in the context menu, at the bottom

      April 24th, 2010 at 3:19 am

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  7. Dan

    Screengrab is exactly what I was looking for! Great! The save page as function (Ctrl+S) in Firefox loads in all kinds of files that anti-virus flags as adware, Etc., but Screengrab is a single photo, not a bunch of files in a folder and no adware files!
    REALLY GREAT!!!!!!

    April 2nd, 2010 at 10:32 pm

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  8. Gavin

    I’ve used this plug-in for a while and it is very useful… as a developer I take screen shots all the time when discussing things with colleagues via email. the save/copy selection is probably my most used function but the save full page/frame comes in very handy too.

    highly recommend to all…

    April 3rd, 2010 at 1:36 am

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  9. Anatoli. G.

    I can not believe it that is no one commented yet.
    This is the best add-on that was made.
    It solve all my problems with creating images for my sites,
    getting articles and all kind of content.
    Thank you very much Andy.

    April 3rd, 2010 at 4:36 am

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  10. Fancy

    not working. Said not a valid install program when I try to install.

    April 3rd, 2010 at 6:59 am

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  11. ana guese

    great add-on!

    April 3rd, 2010 at 8:00 am

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  12. david

    I’ll have to see how this compares to windows vista / windows 7 snipping tool

    April 3rd, 2010 at 3:10 pm

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  13. Dogsbody

    Get it now button doesn’t seem to work…

    Firefox could not install the file at

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/1146?src=rockyourfirefox

    because: Not a valid install package
    -207

    April 3rd, 2010 at 5:02 pm

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  14. shahrin

    I got this error:
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    Firefox could not install the file at

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/1146?src=rockyourfirefox

    because: Not a valid install package
    -207
    ==========================

    April 3rd, 2010 at 7:45 pm

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  15. Ahamed

    Well this is a really helpful tool and thanks for this cos previously I had to take screen shots and crop the page to my preference which is a pain…. Thanks again

    April 3rd, 2010 at 10:31 pm

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  16. love joshua

    i just mit say wat u just said. at a time ma printer stored workin and i did a work 4 some peeps that i just must print. and the site got this script that wont let me save the page. so wat next? SCREENGRAP said all ma pages as images that i just had to print just outside ma work place. UP FIREFOX. up screengrap.

    April 3rd, 2010 at 10:38 pm

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  17. Phil, Normandie, France

    Great add-on – works like a dream. One of the easiest and best for grabbing part of a screen.

    April 4th, 2010 at 12:02 am

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  18. DAVID JOHN KNIGHT

    IT WILL NOT INSTALL

    April 4th, 2010 at 1:26 am

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  19. Hira Lal Sawhney

    Good to have the facility .Thanks for making the life easier .
    H L Sawhney

    April 4th, 2010 at 2:08 am

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  20. gustavo

    Very googe option.

    April 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am

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    1. gustavo

      Sorry, very good option.

      April 4th, 2010 at 9:51 am

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  21. Nathan

    Just FYI, this plugin does not work with IE Tab. Otherwise, great little plugin.

    April 5th, 2010 at 7:30 am

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  22. Pingback from Rock Your Firefox « Elise Allen…Writer & Marketeer

    [...] relevant add-ons. For example, if you have a need to take a lot of screenshots of Web pages, my Screengrab recommendation would be helpful. If you’re a Craigslist fan and love crawling through the [...]

    April 5th, 2010 at 11:35 am

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  23. Ben

    I think the FireShot addon is a lot better.

    In the words of the developer:

    “Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

    The captures can be:

    - uploaded to FREE public screenshot hosting
    - saved to disk (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP)
    - printed
    - copied to clipboard
    - e-mailed
    - sent to configurable external editor for further processing. “

    April 5th, 2010 at 2:14 pm

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  24. Hal

    Instead of just a screen capture, why not highlight and save the page? Check out iCyte.com.

    April 5th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

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  25. stella oliver

    I can make it work with firefox 3.6

    April 11th, 2010 at 5:03 pm

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    1. stella oliver

      sorry wont work with 3.6firefox

      April 11th, 2010 at 5:04 pm

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  26. graham

    the menu on the image looks like Mac OS, which is funny. You can do all this natively on OS X already. command-shift-4

    April 17th, 2010 at 7:04 am

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  27. RssMur

    Very Nice Add-On. I’ve needed something like this a good few times in the past, it’s going to come in handy for sure.

    April 23rd, 2010 at 12:40 pm

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  28. archie

    The png files it creates cannot be opened with either Irfanview or FastStone (latest versions)
    32 bit

    Win 7 can open them via its inbuilt browser.

    The png files are not correctly generated, older screen capture programs like MWSnap (XP) can generate compatible png files.

    April 30th, 2010 at 2:49 pm

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  29. blane

    Not bad!! A bit more convenient than print screen. 8/10

    May 3rd, 2010 at 11:36 pm

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  30. cool

    This is awesome!

    May 4th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

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  31. Stephanie

    I just installed Screengrab and will definitely use this for my blogging activities. :) Although I have a feeling I’ll only be using Selection and Visible Portion the most.

    Great job!

    May 6th, 2010 at 12:54 am

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  32. Technicowl

    Screengrab from Mozilla is important to me. I am a blogger. I down loads of pics and images a day. It’s going to be nice to just grab a file from the screen and save to file format to use on my social media sites.

    May 11th, 2010 at 12:24 am

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  33. shrikant saini

    nice really great tool ,working nicely

    May 16th, 2010 at 5:13 am

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  34. dannie

    PURE BRILLIANCE!!! No more screen shot paste…screen shot paste…’treat as one object’ rubbish! Thank you inventor of screengrab!!

    June 1st, 2010 at 8:46 am

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  35. KFM

    I love this extension. I’ve been using this one since I found it. I tried FireShot for about 15 minutes, and went back to ScreenGrab. My wife uses SnagIt, so she tried to get me to use that, but for taking pictures of a site, this extension rocks.

    June 15th, 2010 at 7:34 am

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  36. Walter

    Just installed it. I’m running OSX 10.6.4 with Firefox 3.6.6. For some reason, it doesn’t do just that one thing I wanted it for: capturing a full frame. Full page does work though. Suggestions anyone?

    June 29th, 2010 at 7:07 am

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  37. distortedb00m

    Great Firefox add-ons…I’m using screengrab for 2 years. Tested in my new OS-Windows 7 and it runs smoothly.
    Awesome add-ons!

    August 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am

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