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Go Full Page: what it is, and where things stand

Updated 30 August 20264 min readNitesh Padghan

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: installable, as a beta listing

You can install GoFullPage from the Chrome Web Store today. Its developers publish GoFullPage BETA — Full Page Screen Capture, and it installs like any other extension. What has not returned is the original listing, so an existing install is not repaired by it and the user count starts from zero — but the tool itself is available, and any page still telling you otherwise is out of date.

The original 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, which as of 30 August 2026 they were still doing. 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.

If your installed copy was disabled

1. Open chrome://extensions and try re-enabling it; this has worked for many people.
2. Prefer re-enabling to removing. The original build is no longer served by the store, so a copy you delete is a copy you cannot get back — the beta is a separate extension with its own storage.
3. Export anything you still keep inside the extension to real files on disk.
4. Otherwise install the beta above, or use Microsoft Edge, where the original was never affected.

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 a listing goes away and the replacement is a different extension.

• 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, activeTab only, 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.

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