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How To Use Firefox to take Mobile-first Screenshots *Fast* on Any OS #55

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nelsonic opened this issue Nov 29, 2022 · 1 comment
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nelsonic commented Nov 29, 2022

If you don't already have Firefox installed, download and install it: #9 "Install a Dev Browser"! Do it now! ⏳

Once you have Firefox installed, open the Application.

In the top-right corner of the Firefox window, click on the "3 Horizontal Lines" (pancakes) Menu, Then Click on "More tools":
firefox-menu-more-tools

In the "More Tools" sub-menu, click on "Customise Toolbar":
firefox-customise-toolbar

Drag the "Screenshot" icon to your toolbar:

firefox-customise-toolbar-drag-screenshot-icon-to-toolbar

You should end up with the following:

firefox-toolbar-with-screenshot-icon

Once you have everything setup, it's easy to take full-screen screenshots by clicking on the "Screenshot" (scisors) icon
followed by "Save full page":

firefox-take-full-screenshot

Once you've taken the screenshot, you can click "Copy":
firefox-copy-screenshot

And paste the screenshot into any GitHub Issue Comment:

firefox-mobile-first-screenshot

This excludes all the browser chrome including the URL.

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An Even Faster Way!

Open Firefox Developer Tools, click on the "Responsive Design Mode" (cmd+alt + M)
Then click on the little Camera Icon to instantly take a Screenshot of the viewport:

firefox-responsive-design-mode-screenshot

That will automatically take and download the screenshot to your /downloads directory,
e.g:

firefox-downloads-you-screenshot

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You can then drag that screenshot into your Paint program #53 to highlight anything
and then upload it to GitHub (or wherever) to share it.

Screen Shot 2022-11-29 at 20 54 01

The reason I go through the longer process above is to take full-page screenshots.
e.g. of an entire landing page of a website in one go!

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