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Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by Kunigaikstis » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 8:22 AM UTC

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #3

Firefox recently added some really nice tools for taking screenshots: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.

Try out LightShot. Started using it years ago and never looked back. Completely free as well

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by skinkestek » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 8:32 AM UTC

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #3

Firefox recently added some really nice tools for taking screenshots: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.

> I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"

I've seen someone nearly who was close to getting seriously burned by such a feature.

Uploading needs to be very clearly advertised and easy to avoid otherwise people will get burned.

I guess that's why Firefox removes that feature.

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by czottmann » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 8:35 AM UTC

tdy721 wrote: post #5

Dropbox can integrate with the system screen taker for MacOS. Very useful. Automagically get a link in the clipboard every time you screen. I’ve seen this done so many ways

I've built something like this on macOS using a simple web server. As soon as a screenshot hits the desktop (and either Ctrl or Shift is held) the file is uploaded to the server and the public URL is copied to the clipboard.

It's basically just a folder watcher and a shell script.

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by mindfulplay » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 8:40 AM UTC

andrethegiant wrote: post #17

I'd love this to be native... something like $(0).screenshot() would produce a base64 string of the rendered element. Why doesn't this exist? Why do we need to rely on browser extensions? The closest JS-based equivalent I've found is html2canvas, which doesn't work as well as advertised.

It's a security landmine. IFRAMES, mixed content, downloading / rendering behaviors are all sensitive and may contain private information known only to the browser/user and not the containing webpage.

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by thrownaway954 » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 9:02 AM UTC

really... another screenshot app??? and not an app, an extension to chrome?

which (according to the 2 gifs on their website) ONLY takes screenshot from chrome. so i can't take a screen shot of something from another application in another window. i see nothing new that this thing brings to the table?

why would i use this this over something like lightshot (https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html), which is native, has everything that thing has and more like annotations?

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by aswan » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

andrethegiant wrote: post #17

I'd love this to be native... something like $(0).screenshot() would produce a base64 string of the rendered element. Why doesn't this exist? Why do we need to rely on browser extensions? The closest JS-based equivalent I've found is html2canvas, which doesn't work as well as advertised.

Firefox has: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Taking_screen...

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by v3nom » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

wheelerwj wrote: post #15

its a cool idea, but seriously this seems like another privacy nightmare in the making.

It is really easy to capture private data in screenshots without even noticing. I have made a Chrome extension to blur or scramble website content, so it is safe to capture screenshots in support or editorial scenarios. https://datamask.tech

Re: Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available

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Post by godelski » Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 2:03 AM UTC

rolstenhouse wrote: post #12

kenrick95 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe seamless integration with Firefox Send https://send.firefox.com/ will be great

This is really cool. I can see how the e2e encryption could be super valuable. Thanks for suggesting!

Another nice feature about it is that you can set time limits or number of downloads. So you can upload something and not feel like it will be on the internet "forever".