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by zaik 848 days ago
Don't archive the web by taking screenshots?
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What other way is as convenient and available but better? Printing as PDF doesn't save the content exactly as it's shown in the browser and a plugin I used for a while in the past was pretty unreliable.

Screenshots work on any device with a modern browser and usually I don't want to capture the entire page anyway but just specific interesting parts.

Thanks for the tip. Also I completely forgot you can screenshot specific HTML elements in the Inspect panel with a right-click and "screenshot node".
Late Edit: unfortunately Firefox' screenshot feature seems to have a maximum size, beyond which it just silently truncates the output.