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Firefox Screenshots: the best way to take screenshots on the web.

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What it is

Firefox Screenshots: the best way to take screenshots on the web.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-10-16 12:10:28 UTC to 2018-09-07 16:25:26 UTC.

01232016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsOct 20162016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 2018

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Oct 20162016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 20162016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20162016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 20172017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20172017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20172017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20172017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20172017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20172017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hi, Screenshots developer here – We've gotten similar feedback about the Save and Download buttons, we added the cloud icon in part to make that clearer. I feel like there's a ticket about it as well, but I not able to find it. We're planning on adding a Copy button, and we'll probably do some user research on the buttons generally to make sure the choice is clear. We did have a full page screenshot feature, but it didn't make the cut for Firefox 56. It's back in Firefox 57. If you have any issues or feedback on Screenshots, we track most of our work in GitHub and welcome new issues there: https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots
In Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
We'll have some full screen options in the next release: https://github.com/mozilla-services/pageshot/issues/1613 In an earlier version of Page Shot we took a capture of the DOM at the same time as the screenshot, and so the screenshot meant "look at this" while we had an archival version of the page as the full context. Unfortunately the DOM capture didn't make it into the first release, and so we no longer have that context; we'll probably bring it back in the future, but maybe not as a combined product.
In Firefox Launches More Experimental Features
(Page Shot developer here) I think some confusion is that the article makes it seem like pageshot.net is separate from the experiment itself. Both the add-on and service are the same experiment, and even hosted out of the same repository: https://github.com/mozilla-services/pageshot/ – you could host your own, but I would actively discourage it now (unless you want to contribute) as we are making a lot of changes and it would be annoying to track. Another consideration is that we aren't only storing images, we're also storing information about the web pages. For instance, here's the JSON data for a clip of your comment: https://pageshot.net/data/aQOjNCw5wrjvveMC/news.ycombinator.... – of course you can still handle an image plus metadata on the local hard drive but it takes a lot of work if we wanted to support local and remote hosting.
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Which leads to the question: why remote hosting at all? A lot of the use cases we see are for sharing. In Mozilla's research we've found that even people's archival habits tend to be built on sharing – people email themselves, send messages to other people for the primary purpose of reminding themselves, etc. My own theory is that to make something useful for your future self you have to go through all the same steps as if you were making it useful for someone else. So you have to pick out something interesting, make sure it is described well, etc. Anyway, we want to support sharing and cloud hosting is the best way to do that. That said, this is an experiment, and what we're shipping with isn't necessarily what we're going to find, and we're open to suggestions. I'd encourage you to share any thoughts you have here: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/test-pilot/page-sh... One local hosting idea I've considered is an "all of the above" approach. In that case if you configured a directory to store your shots, then every time you take a shot we'd still upload it, but also same the image (by itself?) in the directory. That would be easy, and maybe it would tell us if this is a valuable direction (and if it was valuable then we might make it fancier than just dumping images). I'd be curious if that feature would make you more open to the concept?
In Firefox Launches More Experimental Features

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