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Go Full Page: what it is, and where things stand
Go Full Page, written GoFullPage by its makers, is the Chrome extension that captures an entire web page as a single image by scrolling it and stitching the frames. Around eleven million people installed it, and for most of a decade it was simply the answer when someone asked how to screenshot a whole page. On 10 August 2026 it disappeared from the Chrome Web Store, which is why you are probably here.
This is an independent page. It is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by GoFullPage or its developers, and it does not distribute their extension. For official statements, see their blog. It is written by the author of a competing extension, which you should factor into everything below.
What Go Full Page does
One click on the toolbar icon and it walks down the page, photographing a viewport at a time and assembling the frames into a single tall image. The capture opens in a results page where you can download it as a PNG or a PDF, or copy it. That is the whole product, and its restraint is exactly why it became the default: no account to make, no panel to configure, no sidebar.
The category around it has grown, but the fundamentals have not changed: every tool here scrolls, stitches, and hands you an image. What separates them now is permissions, pricing, and whether they cope with sticky headers and app-shell pages. That is covered in the extension roundup.
Current status: removed from the Chrome Web Store
The listing went offline on 10 August 2026, and Chrome disabled the extension for a share of installed users with a generic "violates the Web Store policy" warning. The developers' account is that this was a copyright complaint about a design element, that it was not a security issue, that they consider the removal an error, and that they are working with Google on restoring it. Developer Peter Coles has also denied that the extension was sold to anyone.
The full timeline, with sources, is on what happened to GoFullPage. Two things worth carrying away: the warning text Chrome shows is boilerplate for any delisting and does not mean malware, and the extension continues to work normally on Microsoft Edge, which runs its own store.
How to keep your installed copy working
- Do not click Remove. While the listing is down, Chrome cannot reinstall it.
- Open
chrome://extensionsand try re-enabling it; this has worked for many people. - Export anything you still keep inside the extension to real files on disk.
- If you need it working today and have a Premium subscription, Microsoft Edge still has it.
Shortcuts, saving, and the Premium line
Keyboard shortcut: Alt⇧P (⌥⇧P on Mac), changeable at
chrome://extensions/shortcuts.Where captures go: into a results page inside the browser, from which you download PNG or PDF to your usual downloads folder. Anything you never download stays inside the extension, which is precisely the data that becomes awkward when an extension is delisted.
Free versus Premium: capturing and exporting an image or PDF is free; the annotation and markup editor is the paid tier.
What to use instead
If you want the same one-click behaviour from something currently in the store, the realistic options are compared head-to-head on the alternatives page. In short:
- Full Page Screenshot. Mine. Free with no paid tier, no account,
activeTabonly, no network requests, PNG/JPEG/PDF with annotation and redaction included, MIT licensed. - Capture Full Page. The closest like-for-like swap.
- FireShot. Best for capturing many tabs at once; free tier is PNG-only.
- Awesome Screenshot. If you also want recording and shareable links.
- Chrome DevTools. No extension at all; see the four built-in methods.
A drop-in replacement that keeps nothing back
Same one-click flow, same keyboard-shortcut habit, and the editor is
not a subscription. It asks for activeTab only and makes no
network requests of any kind. There is no server for your captures to
go to.
Including a list of what it does worse than GoFullPage.
FAQ
What is Go Full Page used for?
Capturing an entire web page, including everything below the fold, as one image or PDF, for documentation, bug reports, design reviews, archiving and client records.
Is Go Full Page safe?
Its August 2026 removal was a copyright matter by the developers' account, not a security one, and no evidence of compromise has been made public. As with any extension, the thing to check is the permission list on its store listing.
Is Go Full Page free?
Capture and export are free; the markup editor is a paid Premium subscription.
What is the Go Full Page shortcut?
Alt⇧P, or ⌥⇧P on a Mac. Rebind it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
Does Go Full Page work on Edge, Firefox or Safari?
It works on Edge through Edge's own add-ons store, which is why it was unaffected there. It is a Chromium extension, so Firefox and Safari need different tools. Firefox has full-page capture built into its right-click menu.
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