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Features & Capabilities

VisBug is an open-source Chrome extension that acts like a FireBug for designers, providing powerful browser-based web design debug tools. With VisBug, you can point, click, move, resize, and tweak any page element live. It enables editing and styling on any page in any state, allowing designers to work as if the web is their artboard. You can inspect styles, spacing, distances, alignment, and accessibility, nitpicking layouts and content on production or prototype pages at any device size.

Designed to complement your existing Adobe or Sketch skills, VisBug empowers designers and content creators to make front-end decisions without waiting for developers. Edit text, replace images, and design in complex environments including simulated latency, internationalization, media queries, and platform constraints. This tool bridges the gap between design and development by bringing interactive design tools and hotkeys directly into the browser for immediate testing and execution.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:
Google Ireland, Ltd.
Users:
200,000
Rating:
4.78
(275)
1 ratings
Version:
0.4.10 Last updated: 2024-11-20
Creation date:
2020-06-26
Publisher country:
IE IE
Risk:
Very low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
Size:
5.38MB
Email:
pa*****@google.com
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Chrome Web Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-03
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Other platforms

Firefox
VisBug (v0.4.6)
2,264 5.00 (34)
Edge
VisBug (v0.4.7)
34,610 4.50 (13)

Contact the developer

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Developed by:
https://visbug.web.app/
Chrome Web Store
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/visbug/cdockenadnadldjbbgcallicgledbeoc
Email:
pa*****@google.com
Website:
https://visbug.web.app/

Publisher Change History

2025-09-18: ar*****@google.com to pa*****@google.com

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Permission Change History

2024-04-18: Version 0.3.55 → 0.4.1
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User Reviews

Reviewers praise VisBug for in-browser editing of design elements—moving items and adjusting sizes, colors, fonts, and spacing—with instant feedback. They describe it as user-friendly, fast, and valuable for design research, rapid prototyping, and visual QA, and note its usefulness across designers and developers. Reported drawbacks are a missing undo feature and no snip tool for pixel-precise work. Additionally, several users report reliability issues where the tool doesnt always open or show up, with occasional UI bugs. Overall, sentiment is strongly positive despite these issues.
Pros
  • In-browser editing and direct manipulation (move elements, adjust sizes, colors, fonts, and spacing) with instant feedback.
  • Easy to use and time-saving for design checks and edits.
  • Great for design research, rapid prototyping, and visual QA; helps bridge design intent with front-end implementation.
  • Powerful and versatile tool with broad appeal to designers and developers.
  • Free to use as noted by multiple users.
Cons
  • Missing undo function for edits.
  • Lacks a snip/screenshot tool for pixel-perfect work.
  • Intermittent reliability: doesnt always open or show up (flaky initialization).
  • Occasional UI bugs or errors (e.g., trouble exiting or closing).
Recent reviews
Great extension overall. It takes a little time to get comfortable with at first, but once you do, it works really well for quickly rearranging elements on a page while building with Claude Code. A few improvements would make it much easier to use: 1. Add a reset / revert option There should be a button that resets the page back to its original state, or at least lets you undo all current changes and start over. 2. Add layer order controls It would help to have a way to increase or decrease the layer position of elements while moving them. Right now, it is too easy to accidentally move a button or page element and drop it behind something else. 3. Add a collapsible layers panel A collapsible panel on the right side showing the page structure and layers would be very useful. It should list elements such as divs, buttons, input fields, and other components in a visual hierarchy. This would make it much easier to: see the structure of the page at a glance select specific elements from a list highlight where an element is on the page when clicked find and work on elements that are otherwise hard to locate in the browser Overall, this is already a very useful tool. These additions would make it much more practical for layout work and visual editing.
by Ra*****, 2026-04-19

Great! Help for design research: sizes, colors, fonts. I can move elements or change its
by Ju*****, 2026-03-13

Work on an undo feature please, so frustrating!!!
by Sa*****, 2026-03-10
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Is VisBug Safe?

Risk impact
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VisBug does not require any sensitive permissions.

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Risk likelihood
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VisBug is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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