- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: November 27, 2008
- Total Downloads: 4,742
- Downloads last week: 116
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on February 13, 2009
Quickly and easily grab screenshots and edit them with this handy Internet Explorer add-on. Although it's lacking a few of the niceties included with the version for Firefox, this freeware is still impressive.
FireShot for Internet Explorer places a nondescript button on your toolbar. The button contains a drop-down menu with options for editing and capturing screenshots, and accessing your preferences. But unlike the Firefox version, it does not include a status bar shortcut icon, which was nice for one-click access to buttons for editing, uploading, copying, and e-mailing captured screenshots. During our first go-around, we clicked the toolbar button. A nag screen harassed us each time we clicked a command. Our screenshot instantly appeared in a separate window that contained options for uploading, exporting, and saving the image. We especially loved the options for cropping, adding text, and drawing on the screenshot. Each editing feature was very easy to understand and to operate.
The editor and style and placement settings under the Options menu took a little time to figure out, and a Help file would have definitely been a nice addition. Still, we found this to be a very capable program, suitable for intermediate users and above. If you're a blogger, this free tool is a great way to add customized screenshots to your posts.
Publisher's description
From SmartSoft Team :FireShot is an extension for Internet Explorer that creates screenshots of Web pages. This plug-in provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. This functionality will be especially useful for Web designers, testers and content reviewers. Screenshots can be uploaded, saved to disk, printed, copied to clipboard, e-mailed, and sent to external editor for further processing.
Version 0.61 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of FireShot for Internet Explorer 0.61
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Version: FireShot for Internet Explorer 0.61
Pros: None. cant think of one
Cons: Causes my browser to crash
Summary: Great concept; lousy execution. When it did work it only captured part of an image and a lot of the black border. When not in use caused WinXP to close my browser with warnings of suspect add-on or unsafe program. Find another screen shooter.
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Version: FireShot for Internet Explorer 0.61
"Super Disappointed w/IE version"
Pros: It's fine with small to mid-size screenshots but see my main "con" below.
Cons: I can't believe this only works from the toolbar and not the context menu. As a result, I cannot yet find a way to take page size screenshots without Fireshot's drop-down box options being caught in the screenshot, too.
Summary: There's other screenshot programs out there to explore. I like the features and general ease of us with this one but why limit yourself to less than full power if you can find another program that does it all without interfering with the large imag... read more >>
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Version: FireShot for Internet Explorer 0.61
Pros: It does just what they say and does it well. Uninstall included.
Cons: Works only from the FireShot toolbar in IE, not from the context menu as with Firefox.
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