Google Chrome’s New Copy Frames Feature: Sharing Videos Reimagined

Google has simplified the process of capturing video stills on its Chrome web browser. Previously, users often ended up with lower quality images and visible progress bars when screenshotting video frames. But now, Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers allow users to pause a video at any point, right-click, and choose "Copy Video Frame" in the pop-up menu. Testing the feature showed a slight hiccup, requiring two right clicks instead of one to access the feature on YouTube.

The "Copy Video Frame" command captures the current frame and allows it to be pasted in certain text fields within the browser, such as Google Docs, and apps like Apple Notes. However, users can't save the image directly to their desktop and many streaming services restrict the feature's use, limiting it mostly to YouTube. Despite this, Google has initiated deployment of the "Copy Video Frame" feature for Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS today.