Firefox 63, how to save screenshot of full webpage

[darkoshi]

Firefox used to let you save a screenshot of the full web-page via the Developer Toolbar:
https://darkoshi.dreamwidth.org/629515.html

(By the way, if you accidentally tried that from the toolbar shown in the Web Console instead of the Developer Toolbar, it didn't work, and showed an error, "SyntaxError: missing ; before statement".)

The Developer Toolbar has been removed in version 63 of Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcli-removal
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/21/firefox-62-developer-toolbar-removal/

So now you can save a screenshot from the Web Console; but you need to include a colon (:) in front of the command:
:screenshot --clipboard --fullpage

See:
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/27/screenshots-from-the-firefox-developer-tools-console/

In the Web Console settings, you can also select the "Take a screenshot of the entire page" option under "Available Toolbox buttons", to get a Web Console toolbar button for taking a screenshot. Using that button, rather than saving the screenshot to the clipboard, automatically saves a PNG image in the Downloads folder.

Comments

[marahmarie]

It doesn't make sense, either, because in the bug to yank the toolbar they gripe about GCLI being neglected/not kept up and in the next breath tada here's a command line tool based on GCLI folks, enjoy I just gah Mozilla *flails*...oh I see, that was in old version, not the new (I just looked high and low through the Beta and googled but yeah, that end of it seems gone now, too).

Shift + f2 still brings it up in Waterfox (don't know if that's what you're using when you say "old FF" version).

[darkoshi]

By old FF, I meant Firefox Portable 52.9esr which I still have for testing/comparison purposes like this.

I currently use Waterfox as my main browser, but yesterday I was using FF 63 (because I use it for certain things). That's how I found out that the Developer Toolbar was gone. Actually, after the screenshot command wasn't working for me in FF 63 (I was typing it in the Web Console but without : in front), I tried it in Waterfox, and couldn't get it to work there either (because I was using the Web Console by mistake, instead of the Dev Toolbar). Then when I finally figured out my mistake in Waterfox, I went back to FF 63, and was like "Where did the Dev Toolbar go?!"

[marahmarie]

Oh wow, OK, thanks for the clarification...and way to go, Mozilla *rolls eyes*

They could've hired a dev to upkeep GCLI/the toolbar. Just hired them part-time to maintain it if they were so concerned about bitrot/lack of maintenance on it/lack of updated code. I haven't used the internal command line for Fx since the add-on existed that I was talking about (it was kind of neat, I could just never remember to use it often enough before eventually it sort of morphed into something I didn't like so much, with too much GUI and not enough commands, before they killed it off altogether).