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How can I stop firefox from using a webpage to view my screenshots?

help4go
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I used to make a screenshot on my mac using shift+command+4. This would then be loaded right onto my desktop where I could then open the screen shot in preview and edit it using tools-annotate. Now, when I click to open a screen shot the image comes up on a firefox webpage and I am unable to edit it. Is it possible to disable this web-viewing feature and go back to the way I'm used to? If you can help, please explain in a very point by point simple way as I'm not that computer-wise.

I used to make a screenshot on my mac using shift+command+4. This would then be loaded right onto my desktop where I could then open the screen shot in preview and edit it using tools-annotate. Now, when I click to open a screen shot the image comes up on a firefox webpage and I am unable to edit it. Is it possible to disable this web-viewing feature and go back to the way I'm used to? If you can help, please explain in a very point by point simple way as I'm not that computer-wise.

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the-edmeister
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help4go said

I used to make a screenshot on my mac using shift+command+4. ....

Doesn't your Mac still work that way? Being capable of doing screenshots as it did before the Firefox screenshot feature was added to Firefox?

That is done thru the Mac OSX Operating System, whereas that feature in Firefox done within Firefox and the output sent to the web for viewing.

Personally I have never used that feature within Firefox as I have been using the same Windows-based application, called Screen Shot by Parsons Technology since Windows 98 back in 1999. Somehow is still works thru Windows 2000, WinXP, and Windows 7.

help4go
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I still can make a screenshot on my mac using shift+command+4 to capture part of a page AND it does put the image on my desktop but when I go to open the image firefox now opens the image in a webpage. So maddening. Really, there has to be a way to just have the image pop up in preview as it once did.

Any thoughts?

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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So you need to re-associate PNG images (or possibly JPG image) with Preview.

This article covers a lot of topics, but I think for the image files, you would use the steps in the last section:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/change-default-apps-mac-3656510/

Or probably Apple has an official support article. I didn't search exhaustively.