Compare Chrome extensions: Web Developer vs CSSViewer

Stats Web Developer Web Developer CSSViewer CSSViewer
User count 1,000,000+ 200,000+
Average rating 4.46 4.41
Rating count 2,829 366
Last updated 2023-08-26 2017-03-26
Size 1.15M 308.22K
Version 0.5.5 1.7
Short description
Adds a toolbar button with various web developer tools. A simple CSS property viewer.
Full summary

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the Web Developer extension for Firefox.


The best place for support is not in the reviews section below, but on the Web Developer site in the help:

https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/help/

Also available there are a full set of release notes:

https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/history/chrome/

CSSViewer is a simple CSS properties viewer originally made by Nicolas Huon as a FireFox add-on (2006-2008).

How to use : To enable CSSViewer, simply click the toolbar icon and then hover any element on you want to inspect in current page.

Open source inside: Source code can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/miled/cssviewer

Privacy : In order to work properly, CSSViewer requires the permission to access to your history and website data. However, CSSViewer do not collect nor will ever transmit any of your private data.

Known issues :

  • CSSViewer will not work in any opened tabs before installing it nor in the Google chrome store (This is how Google roll :)
  • The style may broke sometimes depending on the site you are surfing.
  • Patches are welcome.
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