Enhancement request: Provide a recording tool similar to Windows' "step recorder"
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(Firefox :: Screenshots, enhancement, P3)
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(Reporter: u20230201, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Steps to reproduce:
I have an issue with some web page, and I'm trying to document the problem for support.
Actual results:
I'll have to make several screenshots manually to document. Unfortunately it won't work well when doing incremental search on a web page.
Expected results:
Microsoft Windows has a "step recorder" that captures a screen shot automatically whenever the user hits a key or clicks with the mouse. It also captures time stamps.
It would be very nice if Firefox had something similar built-in.
I can create a video of my actions (provided through the AMD graphics driver package), but such videos become long and are hard to view when concentrating on temporary details.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Graphics' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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One thing we were considering is a second keyboard shortcut - say ctrl + shift + alt + S - which would save a screenshot using some defaults. This would work a lot better for use cases where you are making a series of screenshots. The current UI and interactions is a bit cumbersome for that kind of task. Would that solve the problem for you?
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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(In reply to Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him) from comment #2)
One thing we were considering is a second keyboard shortcut - say ctrl + shift + alt + S - which would save a screenshot using some defaults. This would work a lot better for use cases where you are making a series of screenshots. The current UI and interactions is a bit cumbersome for that kind of task. Would that solve the problem for you?
Unfortunately no: The idea was that the screen shots are recorded automatically without having to press a specific key combination or click some button.
The specific case I have in mind is when Ctrl+F incremental search fails to find some text that is present on the screen as text (still clueless what the problem is, but pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S would most likely interfere with incremental search).
So it would be nice if a screenshot were created for every key being pressed, maybe also marking where changes happened on the screen.
I don't know if that's is doable at all, but it would be nice.
What I don't like with Microsoft's tool is the poor JPEG quality of screenshots and the proprietary format that makes it hard to impossible to redact any contents. Also Microsoft's tool only creates a screen shot when when you completed entering a dialog field, or when you clicked some button (i.e.: the incremental search ting won't be recorded).
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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That sounds pretty specific and specialized and probably not something we would build into the product itself. You might be able to code it yourself using the screenshot tool in devtools. Otherwise one of the several screenshot extensions might work?
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