Downloading a screenshot, Sounds oh so reasonable Options

[Brian Chandler]

I wanted to save a screenshot of my bank statement, so if it logs me out I can still copy the numbers. So in Firefox I right-clicked, and found "screenshot"; selected an area, then it said "Copy" (presumably meaning to the clipboard) or "Download" [sic]. Clicking "Download" indeed produces a bit of whirring and a delay while it looks like this "screenshot" is being downloaded. But hang on, where could a screenshot be downloaded from? My bank statement is confidential, and I do not want it "uploaded" to anywhere it could be "downloaded" from, so what the hell is going on?

[Brian Chandler]

Thanks for the responses. To go from the (problem) end, it does look as though the "telemetry" stuff is just collecting statistics. The "Download" label appears (as in Coothead's original non-garbage! answer) to be an illiterate misnomer.

More generally, what I almost always want is a bit of data selected from the page; print to pdf is hopeless if I want to print just the relevant bit, as is the "PrintScreen" button I had never noticed before. There is a "screenshot" utility, but it doesn't let me do the obvious thing, which is to print the selection on a bit of paper; and now I know that the firefox "screenshot" function is equally deficient. Hmm.

[Christian J]

There is a "screenshot" utility, but it doesn't let me do the obvious thing, which is to print the selection on a bit of paper;

Which OS are you using? Windows' Snipping Tool lets you select a rectangle on the screen, and then print it directly.

You can't select content outside of the screen though. When I must do that, I zoom out the page until everything fits on screen; then maybe one can increase the size back to a legible size on the Print Preview?

[pandy]

Surely there are lots of programs that let you capture a selection. But now you want to print it directly? Don't know about that. I know Greenshot has a Send to Printer option, but since I don't have a printer anymore and hardly printed anything when I did I've never tried it. You could take a look. It's available for Windows and Mac, I think.

https://getgreenshot.org/