Page Saver - Today's Browser Tip

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Page Saver - Today's Browser Tip

by Jordan Running Dec 23rd 2005

Awhile I posted about ScreenGrab, an extension for Firefox that takes a screenshot of an entire web page. It got the job done, but I had a few issues with it, namely that it required Java and it was a tad buggy. Pearl Crescent's Page Saver looks like a great alternative. It's only for Firefox 1.5 and above and uses the Canvas feature to capture either the visible portion of the page or the whole thing without your having to do so much touch your scrollbar. The only caveat is that at this point it isn't able to capture the output of plugins such as Flash.

Tags: extension, firefox, page saver, PageSaver, screen capture, screenshot

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Weasel said 10:14AM on 12-23-2005

For capturing websites I use a program that prints to a pdf file, such as CutePDF (freeware), but there are also open source alternatives.

Peter said 12:18PM on 12-23-2005

Scrapbook does all this and more. And it saves the file as a file, not an image so you can search and edit it.

http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

Jordan Running said 10:12PM on 12-25-2005

Peter, I think you've missed the point: when you want an image of a web site Scrapbook (which I've featured before as a Browser Tip) won't do you any good.

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