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Microsoft Edge will soon receive support for a web capture utility that will allow browser users to take screenshots of web pages.
Called “web capture,” the new screen capture tool is currently being tested on the Edge Insider channels (Edge Dev and Edge Canary versions) before being added to the main Edge browser.
The function is not new. The initial version of Edge, based on Microsoft’s proprietary EdgeHTML engine, supported a web capture utility.
The new screenshot tool being added now is an adaptation of the previous feature, but for Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge browser.
To use the new web capture utility, users have four methods at their disposal.
1. Keybpard shortcut: CTRL + Shift + S
2. Context menu -> Web capture
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3. Use the More / Settings menu (…) in the upper right corner of the browser and select Web capture.
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4. To add a button to the Edge toolbar, go to edge: // settings, search for “capture”, and then select “Show web capture button“option.
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After taking a screenshot, users can copy it to the clipboard by selecting “Copy“option. To save a photo to local device, press”Advance“first and then the”Save“button in the upper right corner
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Other similar screen capture utilities are also present in other browsers like Firefox, Opera, and Vivaldi. In recent months, new feature development in Edge has often found its way into Chromium and later Chrome as well; however, it is unclear if Microsoft is willing to contribute this feature to the Chromium codebase or if it will remain exclusive to Edge.
“In the near future, you can expect to see more functionality added to web capture, such as adding ink or highlighting to your captures, capturing entire web pages, and scrolling while marking them,” Microsoft engineers said yesterday when they announced the new feature.
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