449829 - Allow exporting a bitmap rendering of the page on "Save Page As..."

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309939

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alexandre Folle de Menezes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

It would be very nice to have an option to render the page to a bitmap (.png or .jpg) on the "Save Page As..." dialog.

I guess it would be specially useful for web developers, to show problems in the page.  It would also be useful for reporting rendering errors.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load any page
2. Open File/Save Page As...

Actual Results:  
There's no ".png" or ".jpg" option on "Save as type"

Expected Results:  
A ".png" or ".jpg" option on "Save as type"

I found an extension that does this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408

The UI is not the best, but maybe it is a starting point for a fully integrated implementation.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

A quick search didn't turn up a possible duplicate, so confirming.
It looks a lot better than a pdf, but maybe I've just never understood the purpose of a pdf if you can also do it as html.