If you haven’t yet discovered Firefox, then you should take a look. Firefox is a fully free alternative to Internet Explorer that leads the way with browsing, as a ’separate’ program to the rest of Windows. However the real power of Firefox comes from being open source software for which there are heaps of plugins. There are too many fantastic plugins to even start on a list of them this time, so we’ll just focus on one in particular.

FireShot is a free Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations.

With FireShot, you can capture a web page as an image; save to PNG, JPEG, BMP; copy to the clipboard; send a screenshot via email; edit the screenshot; and add text and graphical annotations. FireShot allows you to choose whether to capture entire web page or only visible part of the page.

The following little demo took a couple of minutes all up, using only FireShot within Firefox. In fact the images of the Zoho main menu above, and the Joost home page below, were grabbed and cropped straight from their websites using FireShot!