Include "Capture Screenshot" option in the context menu

[lukemulks]

Description

We have received two separate feature requests from the Community for Brave to include a screenshot feature for desktop users this week.

One of the requests was pretty thorough, and included some good detail.

One user from the Community mentioned that they were observing the Firefox vs Brave comparison table from this page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/brave/, and noticed that the Screenshot feature was an item Firefox included, that Brave didn't.

Screenshot of the table

Did a little bit of digging, and it appears that Chromium ships with built-in screenshot capture options in the Dev Tools. (https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/how-to-screenshot-on-google-chrome)

I queried the Chromium source code for references to screenshots, in case this is helpful.

https://source.chromium.org/search?q=Screenshot%20&sq=&ss=chromium%2Fchromium%2Fsrc

Steps to Reproduce

Ideally, similar to how we provide additional features in the context menu, I'm proposing that we add an option to the context menu when a user right clicks within the page DOM

1. User right clicks in page
2. User selects "capture screenshot"
3. Brave captures and saves image of visible page area on screen to download folder.

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Expected result:

Reproduces how often:

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

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[rebron]

There's a flag for a screenshot tool now in beta/nightly. It's a screenshot tool for the current window via selection. brave://flags/#sharing-desktop-screenshots

[lukemulks]

Excellent!

[Saoiray]

There's a flag for a screenshot tool now in beta/nightly. It's a screenshot tool for the current window via selection.

Awesome to see. One thing I'd like to add though, would it be possible to add an option for a shortcut for it? Not sure how difficult it would be to add in the coding for it, but can guarantee would be much appreciated instead of always having to click multiple times to get a screenshot. (I really need to start using Nightly. Been hesitant though. Need to learn how that works if have Release and Nightly, in terms of Rewards/Ads. Been afraid it would decrease earnings or somehow get me flagged)

[SalahAdDin]

Is it on the road map? It is funny we can do it with the developer tools, but we don't have a button for doing it from the toolbar itself.

[bsclifton]

We should be able to add something a little more accessible soon - @fallaciousreasoning has a prototype of adding a command palette to the omnibox. We could potentially add the devtools items for screenshotting as a source

Definitely would be nice to have as a context menu too, though!

[fallaciousreasoning]

We can probably get a shortcut set up too, after https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/17296 lands :smile: We'll just need to add a command for it.

[jonathansampson]

Users have also requested that such a feature offer optional full-size screenshots (i.e. screenshots of the entire document, which is presently available via the developer tools).