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Mozilla To Add Screenshot Sharing Feature To Firefox Test Pilot Program (softpedia.com) 75

Posted by BeauHD from the early-bird dept.
An anonymous reader writes: [Softpedia reports:] "Mozilla plans to include a webpage screenshot sharing feature to Firefox as part of the Test Pilot program, a spokesperson confirmed to Softpedia. The new feature is called Page Shot, and will initially roll out on Firefox Test Pilot in late-Q3 of this year. The Firefox Test Pilot program allows users to test experimental Firefox features using a special add-on. Based on user feedback, those features will end up as built-in Firefox features, or self-standing add-ons." The pageshot.net website is now offline as Mozilla prepares to launch the add-on via Test Pilot, but Softpedia has the screenshots. You can view the screenshots here.
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Mozilla To Add Screenshot Sharing Feature To Firefox Test Pilot Program

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  • Cool... I guess?? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:10PM (#52722693)

    We've been able to share screenshots for almost 30 years now, this feature better have some neat use cases over traditional methods otherwise I'm sure this'll just be another bloat feature on an already pretty hefty browser.

    • The only neat part is how the govt can access it without your knowledge.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jrumney ( 197329 )
        I'm pretty sure there are other neat use cases of interest to the phishing community.

    • Priorities please! (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward
      My biggest concern with Mozilla is its high CPU and memory footprint. Even backgrounded on supposedly static pages it chews up CPU. People have been complaining about this for years, but Mozilla has continue to ignore it.... Instead they rip out bloatware A (their "Hello" video conferencing) and replace it with bloatware B (Screen Capture).

      But there area already screen capture add-ons, just like there were video conferencing add-ons. Mozilla, What the fuck do you think you are doing?

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by swalve ( 1980968 )
      How is this better than the prtscn button?
      • 1) It looks like it can automatically upload the screenshot so you can easily share it and 2) it may be possible to capture an entire webpage, something that's not possible with an external tool.

        • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

          by Anonymous Coward

          when you accidently bump a key when you are at a porn site, it will send a screen shot to your boss and everyone in your "social group"
          awesome! NOT

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jrumney ( 197329 )

        How is this better than the prtscn button?

        It is easier to remotely exploit via JavaScript.

  • Uh huh (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Lunix Nutcase ( 1092239 ) on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:17PM (#52722715)

    Hey look! More features no one asked for!! Is Mozilla now in "throw a ton of shit at the wall and see what sticks" mode?

    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by allo ( 1728082 )

        Which would be a good thing, if they would write for their own usage. Maybe one person is really into "i always wanted a nice screenshot function", but not all of mozillas devs. So there must be more a "We like to build this feature as an interesting challenge" thing than a "i always wanted it!" thing.

    • ... I asked for it

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        You bastard!

    • Hey look! More features no one asked for!! Is Mozilla now in "throw a ton of shit at the wall and see what sticks" mode?

      From TFA: https://pageshot.net/ [pageshot.net]

      Softpedia: What's Page Shot's origin story?
      Ian Bicking: We think a lot about sharing, linking and saving information on the web.

      Perhaps they should spend more time thinking about displaying information from the web...

      • We think a lot about sharing, linking and saving information on the web.

        You mean... you think about the three things the web was explicitly designed to do, and has been doing since its inception?

    • It was asked for by all those Windows users and Indian "developers" that always send screenshots of system logs or XML data instead of that extremely hard to use format called text.

  • WTF?!?!?!? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by williamyf ( 227051 ) on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:18PM (#52722723)

    when did Flower+Shift+3/4 or Shift/CTRL/ALT+PrtSCR became such a difficult task that we need a "Feature" in the Browser for ScreenShots?!?!?!?

    Mozila, bloat with gusto!

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Ah, but you neglect the part where a new version of systemd breaks the normal OS screenshot feature.

      Glad for Firefox's screenshot mode then, you will be!

    • In case you weren't aware there have been Page Shot-style 3rd party add-ons for many years. The #1 difference between them and PrintScreen/etc is that the add-ons can screen shot the entire page in one go, as opposed to only the visible portion using PrintScreen/etc.

      • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

        by Anonymous Coward

        in recent versions of Firefox with no extra addons:
        press Shift+F2 to bring up Developer Toolbar, then type in
        screenshot --fullpage --clipboard

      • You mean like Print to PDF does in mac?

        (And I guess there is some sort of out of the box equivalent in Windows 10)

    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Wow! That's awesome! (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    What's next for Mozilla? How about a BUILT-IN notepad feature, so I can take handy notes?

    or a a Basic Calculator? for math numbers? what i really need is a calculator inside my calculator

    Coming soon:

    Mozilla BUILT-IN Clock

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      It really needs the clock. I'm serious. You know how much effort it takes to look around outside the browser to find the time? I don't have time for the time.

  • This is another unneeded feature that is to be implemented when resources should be focused on the core purpose of the application. It is a web browser before it is anything else and, in my opinion, should get back to just being this. I don't want any one application to have everything in the kitchen sink as long as I can run multiple applications.

    • Yeah it is a web browser, and one of the oldest job of a web browser is to turn image files and markup into a visual representation. And if you want to somehow capture this visual representation as an image, the best way to do it is through the browser, since the broswer is the authority on how the pages are being rendered.

      Previously you had to download an add-on to do this, which is a bit of a pain, and something the browser should support natively, if for no other reason than it is trivially easy for the

      • Yeah it is a web browser, and one of the oldest job of a web browser is to turn image files and markup into a visual representation. And if you want to somehow capture this visual representation as an image, the best way to do it is through the browser, since the broswer is the authority on how the pages are being rendered. Previously you had to download an add-on to do this, which is a bit of a pain, and something the browser should support natively, if for no other reason than it is trivially easy for the browser to simply provide the data it already has. No the browser shouldn't do everything. It should only do things that are browser related. This is browser related.

        The article sure seems to describe what simply is a cropping-capable screen capture tool tied to a cloud-based, social web back-end. I believe this is another damn data grab and one disguised by a so-called needed feature. Even if not a grab per se, it is one more way to get the user-base locked into cloud-dependent services and applications. I'm certain that the mainstream user doesn't need or want this and that the user isn't taking and indexing screen grabs. If this was capable of dumping the entire

        • The article sure seems to describe what simply is a cropping-capable screen capture tool tied to a cloud-based, social web back-end.

          Yeah the description and animation of how to use it from the article look really stupid. I hope that's not how this feature it will actually end up. But that doesn't mean the good version of this feature shouldn't be added.

          Why add the PageShot feature to the browser when the OS already allows the user to easily capture what's on the screen and has an image editor?

          Because the browser is aware of the "canvas" contents of the rendered web page, and the OS only knows the "viewport" contents. This means that if the website contents are larger than the browser window, you only get a partial screenshot. Sure you scroll around to different areas of th

          • The actual screenshot functionality is already there: just do shift+F2 > "screenshot [--fullpage] filename", or "screenshot --clipboard".

            In fact I just checked the syntax for it and "--imgur" is also an available argument (which is great if you're okay with all your screenshots ending up on imgur).

  • Mozilla's new business model (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Copy everything Chrome/Canary does.

  • breaking news (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    In the next major release, Mozilla is going to add a full version of emacs to Firefox.

    After that, systemd will be ported to emacs.

    Then emacs will be rewritten on top of systemd.

    The Systemd will be ported to ECMAscript running in Firefox's javascript.

    Emacs will be recompiled to work in systemd.

    Finally, Firefox will be rewritten in elisp on systemd on ECMAscript on firefox on emacs on systemd on emacs on the next older version of Firefox.

    This will exhaust the the universe's available entropy pool, and the hea

  • Finally a Mozilla-approved source to show them that their built-in PDF viewer is completely fucked when it comes to embedded images that are progressive JPEGs and TIFFs.

  • It's like nobody around here cares about anything Mozilla does except whatever could potentially piss them off. Oh no! An experiment that some dude whipped up that won't ever be in Firefox proper! Time to get the pitchforks out and trot out the usual lame lines about how Firefox shouldn't dare to do anything that isn't already being done (fixing the browser, focusing on my personal browsing workflow, etc).

    And no, I won't bother pointing out all the nifty stuff they're doing, because it's pointless. You'll a

  • Once again Mozilla adds features it will later ax. All that we want is Servo and for the whole thing to run fast. Mozilla is lost. They abandon Thunderbird and create all these moronic features like Hello and even fail to implement Firefox Sync in a sane way until v2.

  • Make the switch to Palemoon [palemoon.org]. Fully customizable as Firefox once was before they started copying Chrome, and they're not getting rid of XUL either, offered a 64-bit Windows build long before FF, plus it is kept secure and up to date, and has an Android version that syncs with the desktop one. Firefox meanwhile keeps playing around with the UI and adding unnecessary bloat that would be better served as optional extensions for those who want them.

  • ...of pocket et al. Another feature nobody asked for, to solve a problem nobody was having.

  • I'm perplexed as to why this would need to be a browser feature?

    Coming soon.... Firefox will run mysqldump with a click of a button.

  • In the Linux world, one can use ksnapshot to grab anything - including graphical text - intended to copy protected - and automatically send it to OCR - and have the text ready to copy and paste..

    Without OCR the feature is pretty worthless..

    There is no need for firefox to do any of this.. perhaps they should concentrate on providing a way to pause scripts on a tab basis when not viewed? Or better ways to identify tabs that are slowing things down?

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