Spector.js
Explore and Troubleshoot your WebGL scenes easily.
Manifest V3
- By:
- babylon.js
- Users:
- 30,000+
- Rating:
- 4.65 (46)
- Version:
- 0.9.32 (Last updated: 2024-10-15)
- Creation date:
- 2020-03-16
- Permissions:
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- activeTab
- Host permissions:
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
- Size:
- 378.88K
- Email:
- va*****@gmail.com
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- 15 hours ago
User reviews
Spector.js is widely loved as an essential and powerful debugger for WebGL developers, greatly facilitating learning and performance optimization. Many users praise its compatibility with popular WebGL frameworks and ease of use. However, the extension faces significant challenges due to lack of updates stemming from new Chrome policies, resulting in broken UI elements and incompatibility with modern browser APIs. Additionally, some report severe performance degradation while using it. Despite these issues, the user community deeply values this tool and wishes for continued support and enhancements.
Pros
- Essential and irreplaceable for debugging WebGL applications.
- Helps significantly in learning and understanding WebGL programming.
- Improves performance by enabling effective debugging and testing rather than guessing.
- Supports debugging of various WebGL frameworks like Babylon.js and three.js.
- Highly praised by users for ease of use and usefulness.
Cons
- The extension is no longer supported or updated due to new Chrome policies, causing functionality issues.
- Users experience broken or non-functional UI elements, such as empty canvas selection lists making it unusable.
- The extension causes significant performance lag, dropping FPS heavily when active.
- Requires updates to support newer Chrome APIs as deprecated calls make it inoperable.
- Lack of new features such as depth viewing support requested by users.
Recent reviews
The only way to debug webgl. Can't imagine learning without it. Also helpful while debugging opengl code compiled to wasm. Can't believe google is going to delete it from store
by 
Mikhail Miatselski, 2024-10-02
Mikhail Miatselski, 2024-10-02I learned a lot thanks this extension. Sadly it is no longer supported because of new Chrome policies.
Can we do something to help?
by 
Joseph Merdrignac, 2024-09-09
Joseph Merdrignac, 2024-09-09I'm in love with this debugger
by 
Sebastian Oscar Lopez, 2024-03-03
Sebastian Oscar Lopez, 2024-03-03Extension safety
Risk impact
Spector.js requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
Spector.js has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
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