If you’ve ever been stuck on a computer without advanced screenshotting tools, you’ll know how annoying it is to quickly take a screenshot. Fortunately, Microsoft is changing that by testing a new web capture tool that snaps images within Edge.
You can see this feature for yourself in a tweet posted by @ALumia_Italia. The tweet demonstrates the web clipper tool in action:
From this demo, you can see that the web clipper tool will be easily accessible from the main menu bar. After you’ve snapped an image, you have the choice of copying it to your clipboard or previewing it.
The copy feature is a particularly welcome feature. These days, instant messaging tools support direct pasting of images into the chat window.
As a result, it’s quicker and easier to copy the image to your clipboard and paste it where it needs to go, instead of saving it, uploading it to an image host, and sharing a direct link.
Unfortunately, this feature is currently only available in Edge Canary. Canary is the test platform for Edge, where users can experiment with new additions and give feedback to Microsoft. While you won’t find web clipper in your Edge browser just yet, here’s hoping it releases onto the main branch soon.
Microsoft is testing out a new web clipper tool on Edge Canary, which makes taking and sharing online screenshots easier.
If you combine this with Microsoft forcing Chromium Edge as the standard across all Windows 10 machines (while also making it much harder to uninstall), it means you have access to a quick and easy screenshotting tool whether you’re at home or in the library.
In Microsoft’s bid to make its new Chromium Edge a major competitor in the browser market, the company has added a lot of new features to it recently. For instance, Edge v85 lets you sync bookmarks and comes with a native PDF highlighter tool.