Post by cjm on Feb 15, 2014 19:15:09 GMT
The Chromium browser is quite similar to Chrome. It is Google´s contribution to open source software as it is the open version of Chrome
I take screenshots quite often. There is a multitude of tools to take screenshots. The problem comes in when when you want to take shots of entire webpages andd these are Google related. For example, someone sends you a HTML page via gmail. I guess if you know something about Style sheets etc, it should be possible to do it with some of the tools available. At my level it is not an option. Chromium (and by implication Chrome) even have extensions available; but THEY DO NOT WORK ON THE GOOGLE RELATED PAGES. Trust me, I have spent a lot of time in the past few days on this and I am now saving you hours of frustration.
At least one simple solution is to use Firefox and to add one of their dedicated add-ons for screenshots. I have settled for Awesome Screenshot but there are others.
Downloading Youtube clips was a second problem. Google (who now owns the site) do not allow their browsers to download clips. In fact, they have removed the capability from these browsers and they terrorize developers who do supply such tools (eg Minitube). Again, an easy solution is Firefox with suitable add-ons.
In the process of switching back to Firefox (I exchanged it some time ago for Chromium because it became too baggy), I discovered another problem. Firefox does not import Chromium bookmarks readily. You first have to export the bookmarks in Chromium as HTML files via the Bookmark manager. Then you import them as HTML files on the Firefox side. Not too difficult though.
To make Firefox your default browser, you go to the Firefox preferences (in the edit menu) and set things right in the advanced tab under general. I was pleasantly surprised that a few versions further, Firefox seems to have regained much of its nimbleness. Sometimes, to be honest, one sees things because one wants to see them.
I take screenshots quite often. There is a multitude of tools to take screenshots. The problem comes in when when you want to take shots of entire webpages andd these are Google related. For example, someone sends you a HTML page via gmail. I guess if you know something about Style sheets etc, it should be possible to do it with some of the tools available. At my level it is not an option. Chromium (and by implication Chrome) even have extensions available; but THEY DO NOT WORK ON THE GOOGLE RELATED PAGES. Trust me, I have spent a lot of time in the past few days on this and I am now saving you hours of frustration.
At least one simple solution is to use Firefox and to add one of their dedicated add-ons for screenshots. I have settled for Awesome Screenshot but there are others.
Downloading Youtube clips was a second problem. Google (who now owns the site) do not allow their browsers to download clips. In fact, they have removed the capability from these browsers and they terrorize developers who do supply such tools (eg Minitube). Again, an easy solution is Firefox with suitable add-ons.
In the process of switching back to Firefox (I exchanged it some time ago for Chromium because it became too baggy), I discovered another problem. Firefox does not import Chromium bookmarks readily. You first have to export the bookmarks in Chromium as HTML files via the Bookmark manager. Then you import them as HTML files on the Firefox side. Not too difficult though.
To make Firefox your default browser, you go to the Firefox preferences (in the edit menu) and set things right in the advanced tab under general. I was pleasantly surprised that a few versions further, Firefox seems to have regained much of its nimbleness. Sometimes, to be honest, one sees things because one wants to see them.