Partial Screenshots with Firefox

January 9, 2006 6:55 AM

Partial Screenshots with Firefox

I want to grab portions of a website without the detour via IrfanView or the like. You know, mark the area of a website with my mouse and then paste it into another program (like PowerPoint). Are there any extensions that let me do this?

posted by ollsen to Computers & Internet (13 answers total)

I'm not aware of any extensions. However, if you're doing any screenshots at all - especially partial screenshots, invest in SnagIt. It's well worth the $40 if you do a ton of screen captures. You can even copy free-hand regions.
posted by tom_g at 7:05 AM on January 9, 2006

On a Mac, use Apple's Grab utility to take partial screenshots of anything. Using Windows? NoNags has a bunch of screen capture utilities, some of which should do what you want.
posted by majick at 7:06 AM on January 9, 2006

I personally use ZapGrab. It's free, small, and does exactly what you describe. Linky
posted by TheAnswer at 7:09 AM on January 9, 2006

I use Gadwin Printscreen, also free.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:19 AM on January 9, 2006

Ya, my wife likes SnagIt quite a bit for her work, but the feature set is way overkill for a lot of users. As I'm too cheap to buy a second copy when I would use it maybe twice a year, I went looking a while ago for a free, nice feature-set, windows grab utility and liked both ScreenHunter and ScreenPrint 32. Plenty others to choose from, obviously, very basic on up.
posted by mdevore at 7:23 AM on January 9, 2006

HyperSnap has a ton of features, and most of the capture modes are hotkeys. Just press Ctrl-Shift-R, select the region, save the file. It's pretty simple and it works with any app, not just Firefox. Ctrl-Shift-W (capture window/control) is also handy because it will automatically select the window region of whatever you point to - dialog boxes, etc. This means you never have to do any of that boring cropping that is necessary with Alt-Printscreen.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:39 AM on January 9, 2006

Unfortunately no, I'm not aware of any extensions that'll capture selected regions (not yet, but I'm sure someone will soon enough, now that Mozilla has added the canvas tag to its toolkit). There is an extension called Pearl Crescent Page Saver that will capture and save an entire webpage or just the viewable portion as a PNG, if you want to bypass the clipboard and snag a bunch of snaps for cropping later.
posted by nikzhowz at 8:07 AM on January 9, 2006

Response by poster: Cool!
Thank you very much for your help, everybody!
posted by ollsen at 8:15 AM on January 9, 2006

On a Mac, use Apple's Grab utility to take partial screenshots of anything.

No need. It's built in to OS X. Cmd+Shift+4, click and drag the box, it saves a .png to the Desktop in one go.
posted by wackybrit at 9:43 AM on January 9, 2006

If you have OneNote installed and running, hitting WindowsKey-S at any time shows a screen grab rectangle. The resultant image is placed on the clipboard, and is inserted into a OneNote... well, note.
posted by blindcarboncopy at 9:46 AM on January 9, 2006

No one's mentioned MWSnap yet - it's free and excellent.
posted by chuma at 10:42 AM on January 9, 2006

My personal favorite is Snagit since they also supply a Firefox extension for doing screen captures directly from the browser interface.

You might even take a look at this Screen Capture software guide.
posted by labnol at 11:22 AM on January 9, 2006

I like Snippy - works flawlessly
posted by kdern at 11:33 AM on January 9, 2006