Frequently asked questions

A normal screenshot records only the part of the page you can see. A full page capture records the whole document from top to bottom, including everything below the fold, and saves it as one continuous image. The extension does that by scrolling the page one screen at a time, photographing each screen, and joining the results together.

Open the page you want, click the Full Page Capture icon in your browser toolbar, and start the capture. The page scrolls by itself, and the finished image opens in an editor tab where you can crop, annotate, and export it.

There is also a keyboard shortcut, Alt + Shift + P by default.

Chrome hides newly installed extensions behind the puzzle-piece icon to the right of the address bar. Click it, find Full Page Capture in the list, and click the pin so the icon stays on the toolbar. If it is not in that list either, open chrome://extensions and check that the extension is enabled.

Any recent Chromium-based desktop browser, which includes Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera. Browser extensions of this kind cannot run on Chrome for Android or iOS, which is a platform limitation rather than a missing feature.

Yes. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts and set whatever combination you prefer. This is also where to look if the default does nothing: another extension or a desktop application may already have claimed Alt + Shift + P.

Browsers forbid extensions from reading their own internal pages, and the extension respects that rather than failing halfway through. It will not run on:

• chrome:// and edge:// pages, including the settings and extensions screens
• the Chrome Web Store
• other extensions' pages

On an ordinary http:// or https:// page, the usual cause is that the tab was already open when you installed the extension. Reload the tab once and try again.

Three things reliably improve the result:

• Scroll the page from top to bottom once before capturing, so images that only load when they come into view are actually present.
• Dismiss cookie banners, chat widgets, and pop-ups. Anything pinned to the screen can otherwise appear repeatedly down the image.
• Wait for the page to finish loading before you start.

Some layouts genuinely cannot be measured, in particular pages that scroll inside an inner panel rather than the browser window, and content inside an embedded frame from another site. If a page still comes out wrong after the steps above, please send us the address and we will look at it.

There is a safety ceiling of 200 screens, which exists so a page with endless scrolling cannot capture forever. Extremely tall captures are also scaled down where necessary to stay within the largest image your browser can produce. If a capture stops early, it has almost always hit an infinite-scroll feed rather than a real page end.

Browsers rate-limit how often an extension may photograph a tab, at roughly two frames per second, and the extension waits a moment after each scroll so the page can finish repainting. A long page therefore takes longer. The work continues even if you close the popup.

Yes. The editor exports PNG, JPG, and PDF. PDF is produced on your own machine by a library bundled inside the extension, so no upload or conversion service is involved.

Captures are deliberately temporary. They are held in your browser's local storage and cleared automatically once they are about six hours old, so the extension does not quietly accumulate images of everything you have ever captured. Export anything you want to keep, and it is saved to your download folder as a normal file.

No. The extension makes no network requests at all, and there is no server behind it to receive anything. Captures are created, edited, and exported entirely on your device. You can verify this yourself: open your browser's developer tools on the Network tab while capturing, and you will see no outbound traffic from the extension.

Because a capture has to read the page you are looking at, and you can start one anywhere, so the extension cannot know in advance which site you will choose. The permission is broad by necessity, but it is used only while a capture you started is running, and only to photograph and measure that one tab. Our Privacy Policy explains each permission line by line.

None. There is no sign-in, no analytics, no telemetry, no advertising, and no fingerprinting inside the extension. Nothing you capture is associated with an identity, because no identity exists.

Uninstalling the extension removes its local storage with it. You can also clear it at any time through your browser's "Clear browsing data" screen by including cached and site data. Any files you already exported are ordinary files in your download folder and are unaffected.

No. Full Page Capture version 1.1.0 is free to use, with no paid tier, no subscription, and no in-extension purchases.