31 July, 2007

Page Saver

Here's a useful Firefox extension, discovered via Lifehacker.

Page Saver is a streamlined way of taking screenshots, saving either an entire web page or just the visible portion directly to .jpg or .png, bypassing the laborious process of 'Print Screen', pasting into a graphics package and manually saving.

I don't particularly like the default settings (saves to .png by default, saves .jpg at 50% compression, and makes a cheesy 'camera shutter' sound at the moment of capture), but the configuration interface is straightforward.
It also adds a toolbar icon, but I removed that, preferring to access it only via the right-click context menu. Considering the likelihood that I'd want to use it on sites which have disabled the right-click, I might regret that....

The one disadvantage is that it doesn't capture the output of plugins, such as Flash, but I understand that's integral to Firefox rather than being a deficiency of the extension itself.