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Comment by TranquilMarmot | Hacker News Reader

Firefox recently added some really nice tools for taking screenshots: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots

I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.

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It used to have that and the service got discontinued.

For example, https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/[guid-l...

Interesting. It looks like it was just the less popular option. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/01/24/clarifyin...

Maybe seamless integration with Firefox Send https://send.firefox.com/ will be great

This is really cool. I can see how the e2e encryption could be super valuable. Thanks for suggesting!

Another nice feature about it is that you can set time limits or number of downloads. So you can upload something and not feel like it will be on the internet "forever".

> I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"

I've seen someone nearly who was close to getting seriously burned by such a feature.

Uploading needs to be very clearly advertised and easy to avoid otherwise people will get burned.

I guess that's why Firefox removes that feature.

Try out LightShot. Started using it years ago and never looked back. Completely free as well

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