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A full page screenshot is one image of an entire web page, top to bottom, including everything you would have to scroll to reach. All three desktop browsers can take one with nothing installed; each just keeps the command somewhere different. Here is how to take a full page screenshot in Chrome, Firefox and Edge, and when a full page screenshot extension is the better tool.
screenshot and choose Capture full size screenshot.Chrome has no full page screenshot in its menus. The command is in the developer tools, and it works.
screenshot and choose Capture full size screenshot.It saves PNG only, has no editing step, and on very long pages it can come back cut off. The four limits and what to do about each are in full page screenshot in Chrome.
Firefox has the simplest built-in of the three, two clicks from the right-click menu.
On ordinary content pages it works cleanly. On some app-like sites the lower part of the image comes back blank. Those cases are in full page screenshot in Firefox.
The full-page mode renders the page slightly reduced and saves JPEG, so small text can come back soft, and content that scrolls inside its own panel is left out. The five places it stops are in where Edge’s Web capture stops.
The built-in tools cover the capture itself. None of them crop, blur or export a PDF, so if you need any of that before the image goes into a ticket or an email, you are opening another application. A full page screenshot extension does the capture and that next step in one pass.
OpenCapture is one: a free, open-source extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox that needs no account.
The capture and the export run on your device; nothing is uploaded, and the source is on GitHub. Everything except the tiled watermark is free.
Use the browser’s own tool when the page is short, the format it saves is fine, and you do not need to change anything — it is already installed. Use an extension when you need a PDF, need to crop or blur before you share, or want the same tool in every browser you use. If the page is going to be a document rather than an image, read saving a webpage as a PDF first: printing and capturing give you two very different files.
Every desktop browser can do it. In Firefox, right-click the page, choose Take Screenshot, then Save full page. In Edge, press Ctrl + Shift + S and choose Capture full page. In Chrome, open DevTools with F12, press Ctrl + Shift + P, type screenshot and choose Capture full size screenshot.
The browser methods work the same way on a Mac. In Chrome the Command Menu opens with Cmd + Shift + P instead of Ctrl + Shift + P, and in Firefox the screenshot shortcut is Cmd + Shift + S.
Not with the built-in tools: Chrome and Firefox save PNG, and Edge saves JPEG. Printing to PDF with Ctrl + P re-lays the page out for paper, so it no longer looks the way it did on screen. An extension that exports the capture as a PDF keeps the layout, but the text in that PDF is part of the image, so it cannot be selected or searched. Both routes are compared in saving a webpage as a PDF.
Yes. Both mean one image of the whole page, including everything below the fold. Scrolling screenshot is the name more often used for the same thing on phones, where it is done by the operating system rather than the browser. The desktop version is covered in scrolling screenshots on desktop.