[Tip] Enable Webpage Screenshots Feature in Google Chrome

This article will help you in enabling a hidden secret feature “Webpage Screenshots” in Google Chrome web browser which will allow you to take screenshot of a webpage without installing any 3rd party extension in Chrome.

Google has added a native or built-in screenshot functionality to Chrome browser which will help users in taking a screenshot of the current webpage quickly and easily. Currently the screenshot feature is hidden and interested users need to manually activate and enable the screenshot feature as mentioned in below steps.

By default, Google Chrome doesn’t allow users to take webpage screenshots on PC. Users are required to install 3rd party extensions or use Developer Tools to take a screenshot. Other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge provide screenshot functionality to their users. Now Chrome developer team has also added the much awaited feature.

Once you turn on the screenshot feature in Chrome, you can access the Screenshot feature by clicking on Share button or icon present at the end of the address bar (omnibox) and select Screenshot option from the menu as shown in following screenshot:

As soon as you select Screenshot option, the webpage screen will become dim and you can select desired area of the webpage using mouse drag-n-drop to tell Chrome what portion of the page should be captured to screenshot.

After selecting the area, release mouse button and Chrome will display a popup or flyout containing screenshot thumbnail and a Download button. You can click on the Download button to save the screenshot to Downloads folder. The image is saved in PNG format with “chrome_screenshot” in the beginning of the file name.

If you also want to enable webpage screenshot feature in Google Chrome, following steps will help you:

1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

2. Now type screenshot in the “Search flags” box.

Look for following option in the results:

3. To activate and enable the secret screenshots feature in Chrome, select Enabled from the drop-down box for the above mentioned option.

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

That’s it. You have successfully enabled screenshots feature in Chrome. Now you can take screenshots of any webpage by selecting the option from the Share menu in address bar.

PS: In future, if you decide to disable or remove screenshot feature in Chrome, select “Default” or “Disabled” option from the drop-down box for above mentioned option and restart the browser.

NOTE: There is another preference available with the name “Desktop Screenshots Edit Mode” on chrome://flags page which can also be enabled to direct edit the captured screenshot in Chrome’s built-in image editor (chrome://image-editor/). At the moment the edit functionality is broken and displays “The webpage at chrome-untrusted://image-editor/index.html might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address” error message. In future, this feature will also become functional.

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