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how do I enable Screenshots in Firefox 55.0.3?

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Floating over the menu reveals a hidden 'Firefox Screenshots' but it's not enabled and I would like to have this feature so how do I enable it?

Floating over the menu reveals a hidden 'Firefox Screenshots' but it's not enabled and I would like to have this feature so how do I enable it?

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SreteP said

No, I'll wait thanks but it's a bit frustrating that I could see 'screenshots' show up on my screen but it's disabled and I seemingly cannot enable it in 55.0.3.

Where and how exactly do you see this  ? Would it be possible for you to provide a screenshot  ?

BTW, pardon my ignorance, but what does "for Nightly" mean?

You are absolutely not ignorant  !

This may explain what Nightly is :

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Nightly

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Hi   !

Would you please try this :

Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked) Type and look for the preference : extensions.screenshots.system-disabled and set its value to false

See : http://winaero.com/blog/enable-screenshots-button-firefox/

and also : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots

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The value for both extensions.screenshots.system-disabled and extensions.screenshots.disabled was already false.

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SreteP said

The value for both extensions.screenshots.system-disabled and extensions.screenshots.disabled was already false.

Did you make sure that you're not in permanent private browsing  ?

3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Advanced => Privacy => under 'History' choose 'Use custom settings for history' and make sure that 'Always use private browser mode' is unchecked.

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'Always use private browser mode' was already unchecked.

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Firefox Screenshots is fairly new and still being tested, but it is currently available as a beta version for Nightly ....... Would that be an option for you (for now)  ?

See : https://www.ghacks.net/2017/05/28/firefox-screenshots-integrated-in-firefox-nightly/

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No, I'll wait thanks but it's a bit frustrating that I could see 'screenshots' show up on my screen but it's disabled and I seemingly cannot enable it in 55.0.3.

BTW, pardon my ignorance, but what does "for Nightly" mean?

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SreteP said

No, I'll wait thanks but it's a bit frustrating that I could see 'screenshots' show up on my screen but it's disabled and I seemingly cannot enable it in 55.0.3.

Where and how exactly do you see this  ? Would it be possible for you to provide a screenshot  ?

BTW, pardon my ignorance, but what does "for Nightly" mean?

You are absolutely not ignorant  !

This may explain what Nightly is :

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Nightly

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You won't believe this! After I had to restart the laptop for something else, I then found in Firefox that that gap between the 'save to pocket' and 'open menu' icons was no longer there. Previously there definitely was a gap because when I floated the mouse over it, that hidden and disabled 'Firefox Screenshots' icon was revealed. So I now thought I was going crazy but I retraced all the previous steps you'd suggested and when I looked at extensions.screenshots.system-disabled I found it was now set to 'true'! So I double clicked it to change it to 'false' again and, voila, the 'Firefox Screenshots' icon showed up enabled and it works! Thanks a lot for your help.

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Wow   ! and : Yay  !!!

Somehow that preference in 'about:config' got changed - which is weird. Good for you to set it to 'false' and now everything is as it should have been all along.

Well done  !