Free Chrome extension

Full Page Screenshot

Press one button and capture a whole web page, not just the part on your screen. It scrolls to the bottom for you and joins every screen into a single image.

Add to Chrome, free

Why I built it

I removed the screenshot extension I had been using for years. Not because it was bad, but because I finally read what it could reach: every site I visit, all the time, for a job it only needs to do when I press a button. Nothing I could see justified that. So I built a replacement that asks for almost nothing, and then gave it away.

What it asks for

Two permissions. The single tab whose button you pressed, and permission to scroll that one tab. It has no access to any website until you press the button there, and none at all once you navigate away. It cannot see your other tabs, your cookies, your history or your downloads, and it makes no internet connection of any kind, so nothing you capture ever leaves your computer.

You do not have to take my word for it. Open chrome://extensions, press Details on any extension you have installed, and read the Permissions section. Thirty seconds, and most people never look. If a to-do list wants to read and change your data on all sites, ask why.

It handles the awkward pages

Gmail and other apps. Where the page itself does not scroll and a panel inside it does, it captures the panel and keeps the window around it.
Pinned headers. A bar that follows you down the page is kept once, at the top, instead of being photographed onto every screen.
Pages that load as you scroll. It re-measures as it goes and keeps up, rather than stopping where the page used to end.
Very tall pages and sharp screens. Scaled honestly when an image would exceed what a browser can hold, and it tells you by how much.

What it does with your screenshots

Nothing. They are joined together inside your own browser and disappear when you close the tab, unless you press Download. There is no account, no server and no analytics. The privacy page spells out the one thing that is stored on your machine, which is your own choice of format and preview size.