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# How to record your screen with a browser

Updated 2026-11-09

To record your screen in a browser, press start, pick a screen, window or tab in the prompt, and press stop when you finish. Screen Recorder builds the video inside your tab, so it goes nowhere until you download it. It needs a desktop browser. Phones usually cannot record the screen from a web page.

[Open Screen Recorder](https://toolsugar.com/tools/screen-recorder)

## Record your screen in four steps

Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a desktop work.

1. Switch on Record my microphone too if you want to add your voice.
2. Press Start recording and choose a screen, window or tab in the browser prompt.
3. Use Pause and Resume as needed, and watch the timer. Press Stop when you are done.
4. Check the preview, then press Download to save the video.

## Screen, window or tab: what to share

A whole screen captures everything, including notifications that pop up. A window captures one app and ignores the rest. A tab captures only that page, which is the tidiest choice for a web demo.

## How sound gets into the recording

Your microphone is recorded when you switch it on before you start. Sound from a tab or from the computer is recorded only if you tick the share audio box in the browser prompt, and what is offered depends on the browser and on what you share.

The two do not mix. With the microphone on, you get your voice and not the computer sound. If you need both, record the narration separately with Voice Recorder.

## Which file you get

The browser decides the format. You get WebM or MP4, and the file name shows which. If an app rejects a WebM, convert it with Convert to MP4.

## If you stop sharing early

Pressing the browser's own stop sharing button ends the recording cleanly. Everything captured up to that point is kept, so you can still preview and download it.

## Questions

### Do I need to install anything?

No extension and no app. The browser's own screen capture feature does the work.

### Can I record my phone screen?

Usually not from a web page, because phone browsers mostly block it. Use the screen recording feature built into the phone.

### How do I make the recording shorter or smaller?

Cut the start and end with Trim Video, then shrink the result with Compress Video if you need to send it.

[Open Screen Recorder](https://toolsugar.com/tools/screen-recorder)

## Related guides

- [How to record your voice on a computer](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-record-your-voice-online)
- [How to trim a video without re-encoding](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-trim-a-video)
- [How to make a GIF from a video](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-make-a-gif-from-a-video)
- [How to test your webcam online](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-test-your-webcam)

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