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I am thinking of building a firefox extension. This extension requires the ability of performing screen shots. Is it possible doing so only using javascript?

vondip
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    If I were a younger man, brash and bold, fearless, I would tempt fate and provide a real answer reading simply, "No." – Pointy Jan 20 '11 at 00:13

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UPDATE: This feature has been removed from Firefox, unless you're writing a plugin. Please look for different alternatives, see http://badassjs.com/post/12473322192/hack-of-the-day-rendering-html-to-a-canvas and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/drawWindow

Back in the days, you could: take a screenshot of firefox's window, yes, and it was so easy it hurt. You had to render it into a canvas. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canvas#Rendering_Web_Content_Into_A_Canvas

<canvas id='my-canvas'></canvas>
<script> 
var canvas = document.getElementById('my-canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
// Draw the window at the top left of canvas, width=100, height=200, white background
// drawWindow has been removed :(
ctx.drawWindow(window, 0,0, 100, 200, "rgb(255,255,255)");
// Open another window with the thumbnail as an image
open(canvas.toDataURL("image/png"));
</script>

If you mean a screenshot of the entire desktop, I don't think so

Juan Mendes
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