We have also discussed the idea of giving people the ability to save a
local copy of a webpage, similar to desktop's "Save page as..." menu item.
The main concern on mobile is that whole webpages can take up a lot of
space.

There is an old bug filed about this, if you want to follow along there:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924751

Margaret

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Michael Comella <
michael.l.come...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Mike.
>
> Worth noting there's also the 3-dot -> Page -> Save as PDF option, which
> saves the PDF to your downloads, but I would say it's not as convenient to
> get at as having it in your bookmarks.
>
> One of our future ideas with the screenshots-in-bookmarks feature is to
> associate the screenshot the user took with a full page screenshot (e.g.
> using save-as-pdf or a different mechanism) so the user can both see the
> content they screenshotted and the full page. We can also associate this
> screenshot with the page they took the screenshot on to make it easy to
> return to.
>
> Glad you like it! Enjoy!
> - Mike
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Mike Taylor <mi...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Michael,
>>
>> On 3/8/16 1:20 PM, Michael Comella wrote:
>>
>>> I just landed one of our prototypes from the work week behind a Nightly
>>> flag: when you take a screenshot of Firefox on your device, if your
>>> device is supported [1], you should get a notification and link to your
>>> screenshot will appear in a folder in your bookmarks.
>>>
>>
>> This sounds awesome. One of the features I miss most from ye olde Presto
>> Opera Mobile was a "save page" thing that let me create local copies of
>> pages and get to them via a menu item. I really only used it to save mobile
>> boarding passes because wifi/data is unpredictable at airports --
>> screenshots are a perfect replacement.
>>
>> Looking forward to using this!
>>
>> --
>> Mike Taylor
>> Web Compat, Mozilla
>>
>
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