[satokema]

I hate Mozilla pushing their own things almost as much as Google (a screenshot service? I have a keybinding for that, thank you) but this will probably be the straw that makes me jump ship.

There's always IceCat I guess. Websites get away with loading files from a ridiculous number of third-party servers and it's pretty frightening when you look at the uMatrix tab for it.

[simcop2387]

Firefox's built in screenshot system provides one things that others don't. You can screenshot the entire page as a single unit, without having to resize the window beyond your own screen size.

[petetnt]

Chrome's developer tools also allow this (ctrl+J / F12 -> ctrl+shift+p -> screenshot -> capture full size screenshot (or node screenshot / regular screenshot)

[nixgeek]

That’s actually very useful, thanks, I wasn’t aware it did that!

[jsjohnst]

Most plugins I’ve seen for doing screenshots provide that functionality. Admittedly I’ve not looked much, but any screenshot utility that can’t do that is pretty much useless to me, so maybe I’ve only looked at ones that had it.

[simcop2387]

That might be the case now (I haven't looked either), but back when this was introduced that wasn't the case.

[dmortin]

> I hate Mozilla pushing their own things almost as much as Google (a screenshot service? I have a keybinding for that, thank you)

The screenshot feature is quite handy, because it lets you capture only a certain element on the page which is more cumbersome using the OS' builting screen capture, because then you need to edit the captured image.

[satokema]

OSX has a keybind that lets you drag the exact rectangle to capture, so all I do is keybind, drag, upload to my intended recipient instead of Mozilla's servers.

[fzzzy]

(I worked on screenshots)

Sure, but firefox has knowledge about the geometry of the dom, so you just click on the element you want and it intelligently sizes the shot for you.

Also, before it was screenshots it was Page Shot, and it allowed full text search of the text in your screenshots. Management killed that before launch for some reason.

Finally,d you’ve always been able to save the shot locally instead of uploading it to the server, and you’ll be happy, because the server is going away later this year and you’ll only be able to save them locally.

You may know how to use your os screenshot tool, but we got a lot of positive feedback from non power users who don’t. Right-click->Take screenshot is a lot more discoverable than command-shift-4.

It mystifies me why people hate features they don’t use. So you don’t like it — so what? Other people do. You are the one generating the hate for no reason.

[dmortin]

Apparently, Windows has it too (snipping tool), so it looks like the firefox tool is not necessary.

[underwater]

Windows has a new tool if you hit Windows + Shift + S, which feels a bit closer to the macOS version and less like a Windows app from 1999.

[coolspot]

Ubuntu Linux too - Ctrl+Shift+PrintScr

[faitswulff]

They're deprecating the service, though the feature will remain.

[anoncake]

> They're deprecating the service

Looks like they're serious about imitating Google

[pdpht]

I think Mozilla's privacy scandals are much worse than that screenshot service.

[naniwaduni]

Google privacy scandals, meanwhile ... don't happen because look where our expectations went, huh.

[JetSpiegel]

Their very existence is a scandal.