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Chrome/chromium gripe: cumbersome screenshots; Firefox much better (but management hates employees having cancer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/22

On Firefox, taking a screenshot is just a shortcut away [Wayback/Archive] Take screenshots in Firefox | Firefox Help:

  • Ctrl + Shift + S on Windows/Linux/Chrome OS
  • Command + Shift + S on MacOS

Too bad Mozilla also appears to be amongst the bad guys in firing an employee having cancer ¹.

On Chrome not so much and require opening the Chrome Developer Tools which take up precious screen estate, and saves the screenshot in the downloads folder instead of the clipboard. Many guides exist, for instance:

  • [Wayback/Archive] How to Take a Full-Page Screenshot
    On Mac
    1. Alt + Command + I
    2. Command + Shift + P
    On Windows/Linux/Chrome OS
    1. Ctrl + Shift + I
    2. Ctrl + Shift + P
    These keyboard shortcuts will open Chrome’s developer menu. Just type “screenshot” and you’ll see the option appear to “capture full size screenshot.” Simply select this and Chrome will automatically save a full-page screenshot to your Downloads folder!

    There are more ways, all requiring the Devtools active; the full list of Screenshot features is:

    • area screenshot (select an area, then save the file)
    • full size screenshot (full page, immediately saved to file)
    • node screenshot (a selected node in the DevTools, immediately saved to file)
    • full (current screen, immediately saved to file)
  • [Wayback/Archive] How Can I Screenshot an Entire Website? : chrome
    This feature is now built into Google Chrome! It’s still built for devs so it’s a little tricky to find, but here you go:
    1. Right click the page and open the inspector.
    2. In the top left of Chrome Inspector you’ll see a little phone icon.
    3. Hit that and a new black bar will appear on the top of the webpage.
    4. In the black bar you can pick the dimensions of the screen you want to stimulate (probably want 1920×1080 for a desktop monitor)
    5. In top right of black bar is three dots, in that menu you can do a full page screenshot.
    I’m typing this all from memory so if I’m a little off I apologize.

All cumbersome steps, so there are a few plugins to try:

Of the above plugins, I think I liked Nimble capture most, but then it got struck with malware early 2025:

That leaves the last of the above links “Screenshot” as my tool of choice: it gets a screenshot in a new tab, which I can copy to any imaging tool for further modification like cropping.

Not sure if I want to use the successors of Nimble capture which seems to be this one:

Queries:

--jeroen

¹ see

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