Screen recording guides

Record your Windows screen in a browser, including the one setting that lets Chrome and Edge capture system sound.

Record your Mac screen in a browser, including the macOS permission that silently blocks capture until you grant it.

Record a Chromebook screen in the browser, and when to use the built-in ChromeOS recorder instead.

Screen recording in a browser on Linux, including the difference Wayland makes to what you can capture.

Why browser screen recording does not work on phones, and the built-in tools to use instead.

What Chrome can and cannot capture, including tab audio, the sharing bar, and the WebM files it produces.

Edge screen recording, which matches Chrome closely because both are built on Chromium.

What works in Firefox, and the audio limitation worth knowing about before you record.

Safari support for screen capture, the MP4 files it produces, and where it falls short.

Chromium-based browsers all support screen capture, with a few shields and privacy settings that can interfere.

Record a Google Meet call from the browser without a Workspace plan, and what to tell participants first.

Capture a Zoom call as a participant, without host permission, by recording the browser client.

Record a Teams call from the browser when your organisation has recording disabled.

Recording a long presentation reliably, including how to avoid losing an hour of work to one mistake.

The two different kinds of audio in a screen recording, and which browsers can capture each.

Add a camera overlay to a screen recording, and how it is combined into one file.

Tab recording, which is the cleanest option and the only one that reliably captures audio.

Window capture keeps everything else off screen, with one behaviour that surprises people.

Recording slides with narration, and how to avoid capturing your presenter notes.

What to capture so a developer can actually act on your recording.

Practical habits that make a screen tutorial watchable, from someone else’s point of view.

Why browser-based recording needs no installation, and what you give up compared with a desktop app.

The four reasons a screen recording comes out silent, in the order worth checking.

Why a recording plays but shows nothing, and how to fix each cause.

What to do when the browser refuses to start screen capture.

What to do when a downloaded recording refuses to open, or shows the wrong length.

Why a recording ends before you press stop, and how to prevent it.

Why screen recordings get big, and the levers that actually reduce the size.

The difference between the two formats browsers produce, and which one you want.

Three ways to convert a screen recording to MP4, including one that does not re-encode.

There is no time limit, but there is a practical one — and it is about memory.

What a web page can and cannot see when you share your screen, and how to check any recorder yourself.

Operating the recorder without a mouse, and what assistive technology will announce.