Chrome has no built-in tab recorder, so you need an extension. Here's how to record a tab with your voice, your camera and the page's sound, keep recording while you switch tabs, and end up with a video that looks edited.
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Updated October 2026
Step by step
This takes about a minute the first time. Chrome asks once for microphone and camera access, and never again after that.
Install Screenix for Chrome from the Chrome Web Store, then click the puzzle icon in the toolbar and pin it so the record button is always one click away.
Open the popup on the tab you want to record. Turn on your microphone, your camera and the tab's own sound as needed, and pick a 0, 3, 5 or 10 second countdown.
Instant renders the finished video while you record, with or without a background and zoom on clicks. Studio keeps the raw recording so you can edit every detail afterwards.
Click Start recording or press Alt+Shift+R. Open links, change tabs or reload the page: Screenix keeps recording whichever tab is in front in the same window.
Press Alt+Shift+R again or stop from the popup. In Studio, trim the ends, adjust the auto zooms, crop, speed up slow parts and tune the cursor.
Export MP4 (AV1 or H.264) or WebM from 720p to 4K at 30, 60 or 120 fps, encoded on your computer. Or upload and copy a share link with a Screenix yearly or team plan.
Tab audio
Turn on Tab audio in the popup before you start. Screenix records the sound of the tab you start on and keeps playing it through your speakers, so you can still hear the page while you record.
Chrome only lets an extension capture sound from the tab it was started on. If you switch tabs, your microphone and camera keep recording, but the page sound still comes from that first tab. Start the recording on the tab whose sound matters.
Why the cursor looks different
Most tab recorders use Chrome's tab capture, which bakes your system cursor into every frame exactly as it moved: small, jittery and impossible to change later.
Screenix records the page pixels without the cursor and keeps the mouse movement separately. It then draws a smooth, larger cursor with click effects and zooms in on your clicks. You can change all of it after recording, which is why the result looks edited even when you didn't touch a thing.
Limits worth knowing
A Chrome extension records web pages, not your operating system. Screenix captures the tab in front of you and follows you across tabs in the same window. It doesn't record your desktop, other apps or other windows.
Chrome also doesn't let extensions capture some of its own pages, such as chrome:// settings pages and the Chrome Web Store. For full-screen recording, use your operating system's recorder, or the Screenix desktop app on Linux.
What you get
Follows your tabs
Open a link, jump to another tab or reload the page. Screenix keeps recording whichever tab is in front in the same window, so a whole flow fits in one take.
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The cursor, rebuilt
Screenix records the page without your system cursor, then draws a crisp macOS-style one in its place, with spring smoothing, click bumps, motion blur and a soft fade when you stop moving. Seven cursor themes, all adjustable.
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Screenix zooms in on every click and pans with the cursor, so viewers see what you did without squinting. Keep the automatic zooms or move, resize and add your own on the timeline.
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Add your webcam as a bubble you can drag anywhere, round or square, with your microphone and the sound of the tab you started on.
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Screenix for Chrome records the tab in front of you, so it can draw a perfect cursor over pure page pixels.
Screenix captures the page in the tab you're on, at full quality, without your system cursor.
Switch tabs, open links or reload in the same window and the recording keeps going in one take.
Your mic and camera record throughout. Page sound comes from the tab you started on.
It doesn't capture your desktop, other apps or other windows. On Linux, the Screenix desktop app does.
FAQ
No. Chrome can cast a tab and ChromeOS has a screen recorder, but desktop Chrome has no record button. You need an extension such as Screenix for Chrome.
Yes. Turn on Tab audio in the Screenix popup before you start. Your microphone can record at the same time, and both are mixed into the export.
Yes. Screenix follows whichever tab is active in the window you started in, including new tabs, links and reloads. Page sound keeps coming from the tab you started on.
Not with Screenix for Chrome. It records browser tabs only. Use your operating system's recorder for the full screen, or the Screenix desktop app on Linux.
That bar is how Screenix captures the page without your system cursor, so it can draw a smooth one instead. It disappears when you stop recording.
Recording, editing and exporting are free with a small watermark. A $19 one-time license removes it in one browser.
In your browser, on your computer. They only leave your machine when you export a file or create a share link.
Add Screenix to Chrome, click record and press stop. The zooms and the smooth cursor are already done.
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