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Serious web page captures with FireShot

October 27th, 2007

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.

Via Mozillalinks.org