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Author here. Added some cool features like trimming and cropping, to make it easier for you to nail on the particular area of your screen and keep the recording to a minimum. Let me know what you think!

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Hi, macOS / Firefox 74.0 user here. It will ask for permission and then fail with this message:

    MediaStreamError { name: "NotFoundError", message: "The object can not be found here.", constraint: "", stack: "" }
    main.js:116:15
        oncreate https://gifcap.dev/main.js:116

https://imgur.com/a/2pIsGto

I just figured it out. I have to go to macOS system preferences -> Security & Privacy and permit Firefox to record the desktop. The OS-level permission popup didn't open in focus for me.

I like this! It's scoped and does exactly what it should. I didn't know about the cropping until I read this, maybe add some text explaining the feature?

It's awesome man. Great work! Been looking for something like this. I love that I don't have to install some bloated screen recording tool.

It froze my entire desktop under Firefox on Linux.

Has to login to another session to kill Firefox to get control back.

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