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on my firefox if i right click on a part of the page the website hasn't hijacked, it gives the option to "take screenshot" - which i think required enabling a setting somewhere. I hope it wasn't in about:config or wherever the dark-art settings are. I use that feature of FF to screenshot youtube videos with the subtitles moved and the scrub bar cropped out, i feel like it's a cleaner and smaller clipboard copy than using win+shift+s. Microsoft changed a lot about how windows handles ... files ... internally and screenshots are huge .png now, making me miss the days of huge .bmp.

also as mentioned above, if you need entire sites backed up the firefox extension "singlefile" is the business. if image-y things? bulk image downloader (costs money but 100% worth; you know it if you need it: BID); and yt-dlp + ffmpeg for video, in powershell (get 7.5.0 do yourself a favor!)

```powershell

$userInput = Read-Host -Prompt '480 video download script enter URL'

Write-Output "URL:`t`t$userInput"

c:\opt\yt-dlp.exe `

-f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]' `

--write-auto-subs --write-subs `

--fragment-retries infinite `

$userInput

```



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