Most of you need to take a lot of screenshots during your course of work and the old “Print Screen” trick is a lot more hassle when you compare it with other great options that you have, especially if you are using Firefox as your browser.

Here are eight Firefox 3 screenshot tools that will do everything from saving just a section of a page to the entire page. These tools will also offer you the ability to upload images automatically to specified image hosting services.

FireShot

It is an extremely handy extension that can help you capture just the visible area of a page or the entire thing; no matter how long it is, depending upon your requirements. This tool allows you to save screen shotsto BMP, GIF, JPG or PNG.

Abduction

This tool aims at pointing out errors in Web pages or helping people with development. Abduction also enables you to save all or a portion of a page, or just a frame, as a GIF, JPG or PNG.

Grab Them All

This tool allows you to enter multiple URLs and also specify the type of image you want to shoot and where it will be saved.  As soon as you activate the extension, it goes through the list of URLs you specified by you and takes the shots automatically. You can specify whether you wish to take the screenshot of the viewable area or the entire entry page.

Kwout

This tool was designed with the idea of adding sections of a Web page to your blog entries as a form of quoting. It also allows you to save whatever sections you may need.

iimmgg.com Tools

This tool allows you to take screenshots of the full page or the selected areas specified by you. It also uploads the screen shots directly to iimmgg.com.

Screengrab

It only allows you to save your files as JPG or PNGs. The tool also gives you an option of not only choosing the viewable area or full page for screenshots, but also selecting a section or frame as per your needs. By using this tool, you can save you a lot of editing time.

Screengrab with Upload

This tool enables you to automatically upload your screen captures to an online server to share them immediately.

Snapper

This tool focuses specifically on letting you just select a portion of a page for which you wish to take snapshot so that you save yourself the effort of having to crop out unwanted portions later on.

Hope that these tools will help you taking your desired screenshots is an effective manner. Please share your suggestions and feedback with us.