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jpintos
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Status: New idea

Add basic editing tools (a pen, an arrow, a higlight, a crop tool in a fullpage screenshots) in the Screen Capture Tool.

 

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Jon
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sfoster
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Thanks for the suggestion. This has come up quite a lot over the years. There are a few web extensions that provide this functionality, but each must implement the whole screenshot capture functionality and experience from scratch, so each has different strengths and weaknesses.

I'd like to facilitate this in a way that enables extensions to provide the editing experience, but lean on the browser to provide the initial screenshot capture experience - which has privacy, security and performance concerns that in some cases are difficult to address in an extension.

Is there a tool out there that provides the edit functionality you think would be a good experience to emulate? Understanding that we aren't going to build a full image editors into the browser...

 

Sebo
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@sfosterwrote:

Is there a tool out there that provides the edit functionality you think would be a good experience to emulate?


I'd say Easy Screenshot offers a good basic set of tools (which actually seems to be maintained by Mozilla itself, so maybe that's a good candidate to integrate).

And there's also Nimbus Screen Capture which provides many advanced features.


Understanding that we aren't going to build a full image editors into the browser...

The request is to add basic editing features. I guess with the features mentioned by @jpintos you'd already cover most use cases.


Thanks for the suggestion. This has come up quite a lot over the years. There are a few web extensions that provide this functionality, but each must implement the whole screenshot capture functionality and experience from scratch, so each has different strengths and weaknesses.

The question here is, how to support web extensions with a unified screenshot capture functionality? Reading between the lines, do you imagine to provide web extension APIs that allow to capture the full page, the viewport, a selected area, etc.?