Enable or Disable Full Page Screenshot in Opera Browser

Newer versions of Opera web browser allow users to take a full page screenshot using the built-in Snapshot tool. This article will help you in enabling or disabling the full page screenshot feature in Opera.

Opera web browser comes with a built-in Snapshot feature which helps users in capturing screenshot of the webpage. You can access the Snapshot tool by clicking on the Camera icon present on the address bar.

In older versions of Opera browser, the Snapshot tool allowed the user to capture the visible page screenshot or manually select and crop any area visible on the screen. Although the option was labeled as “Full screen” but it could only capture the visible page area.

In newer versions of Opera browser, when you click on the Camera icon in address bar, you get 2 separate options: Capture visible page and Capture full page. The previous “Full screen” button has been renamed to “Capture visible page” and it takes the visible page screenshot only. The other newly added button “Capture full page” allows users to capture entire page screenshot from top to bottom even if the page is not visible on the screen.

Opera team is rolling out the new full page screenshot feature in phases. Some Opera users have already received the new feature in their browser and some are still waiting for it.

Now there might be two types of Opera users:

• One who received the new full page screenshot feature in Opera but didn’t like it and now want to remove it.
• Second who haven’t received the new full page screenshot feature yet and want to activate and enable it right now.

Fortunately, Opera team has provided a hidden secret preference/flag which can be used to enable or disable the new full page screenshot feature in Opera browser.

If you want to enable the new full page screenshot feature or want to restore the old functionality of screenshot tool in Opera, following steps will help you:

1. Launch Opera web browser and type opera://flags in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the hidden secret advanced configuration page called “Experiments“.

2. Now click inside “Search flags” text box and type snapshot. It’ll show following option in the result:

3. To enable full page screenshot feature in Opera, select “Enabled” from the drop-down box.

If you want to disable full page screenshot feature, select “Disabled” from the drop-down box.

4. Opera will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Opera.

That’s it. You have successfully enabled/disabled full page screenshot functionality in your Opera web browser.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore default settings, set the above mentioned flag value to Default again.

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