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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by TranquilMarmot on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:12PM (#22572584)
Firefox recently added some really nice tools for taking screenshots: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots

I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.

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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by mcny on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:11PM (#22572892)
It used to have that and the service got discontinued.

For example, https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/[guid-l...

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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by rolstenhouse on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:55PM (#22573067)
Interesting. It looks like it was just the less popular option. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/01/24/clarifyin...
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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by kenrick95 on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:30PM (#22572666)
Maybe seamless integration with Firefox Send https://send.firefox.com/ will be great
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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by rolstenhouse on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:56PM (#22573075)
This is really cool. I can see how the e2e encryption could be super valuable. Thanks for suggesting!
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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by godelski on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:03PM (#22580550)
Another nice feature about it is that you can set time limits or number of downloads. So you can upload something and not feel like it will be on the internet "forever".
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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by skinkestek on Saturday March 14, 2020 @04:32AM (#22573964)
> I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"

I've seen someone nearly who was close to getting seriously burned by such a feature.

Uploading needs to be very clearly advertised and easy to avoid otherwise people will get burned.

I guess that's why Firefox removes that feature.

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Re:Show HN: Screenshots in Chrome, Globally Available by Kunigaikstis on Saturday March 14, 2020 @04:22AM (#22573936)
Try out LightShot. Started using it years ago and never looked back. Completely free as well
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