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Everything about capturing a whole page.
Full-page capture looks trivial until you meet a sticky header, a lazy-loading gallery, or a dashboard that scrolls an inner pane. These guides cover the methods, the tools, and the parts that break, written while solving each of them to ship the extension.
News · updated 30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
What happened to GoFullPage, and where it stands now
The original listing left the store on 10 August 2026 over a copyright complaint. A dated record of the outage, and what installs today.
Comparison · 7 min read
A GoFullPage alternative, compared honestly
Five tools compared on permissions, local versus cloud capture, what the free tier withholds, and sticky-header handling, with an honest list of where mine is the wrong choice.
Comparison · free tiers · 6 min read
A free GoFullPage alternative, with nothing paywalled
Every full page screenshot extension is "free". This is the page that says what each free tier actually withholds — annotation, JPEG, PDF, batch — and which ones withhold nothing.
How-to · 6 min read
How to take a full page screenshot in Chrome
Four methods including Chrome's own hidden command, plus fixes for blank sections, repeated navigation bars and pages that refuse to scroll.
Roundup · 5 min read
The best full page screenshot extensions for Chrome
Seven options rated on the things that differ, and the fifteen-second test that decides between them faster than any comparison table.
How-to · 4 min read
Saving a full page screenshot as a PDF
Why Ctrl+P produces a broken document, how to keep the file near 1 MB instead of 5, and when to paginate onto A4 instead of one long page.
Explainer · 4 min read
Go Full Page: what it is, and where things stand
An independent explainer on the extension eleven million people installed: what it does, its shortcut, its Premium line, and its current status.
Comparison · 6 min read
A FireShot alternative, compared honestly
FireShot’s free tier is PNG only. What the Pro licence actually unlocks, what a free tool covers instead, and the one job FireShot still does better than anything else.
Comparison · 6 min read
An Awesome Screenshot alternative, without the cloud
Awesome Screenshot is a workspace that also takes screenshots. If you want a PNG on your desktop and no account, here is what changes — permissions included.
Troubleshooting · 7 min read
Full page screenshot not working in Chrome
Blank strips, a navigation bar repeating down the image, a capture that stops at one screenful, and the pages Chrome will not let any extension photograph at all.
The extension these guides come from
Full Page Screenshot: one click, scrolls and stitches, keeps sticky headers out of the image, exports PNG, JPEG or PDF with cropping and annotation. Free, no account, no network requests, MIT licensed.