Weh Inspector

This extension allows to inspect add-ons that have been developed using the Weh (WebExtensions Helper) toolkit. With Weh…
What is Weh Inspector?
Weh Inspector is a Chrome extension that allows you to inspect and debug add-ons developed using the Weh (WebExtensions Helper) toolkit. It enables you to display messages exchanged between the background and content parts of the add-on, view the current content of the storage, and modify add-on preferences.

Extension stats

By: ACLAP
Users: 68 ▲ 4
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2017-01-17)
Creation date: 2017-01-17
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • contextMenus
  • management
Size: 199.68K

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension allows to inspect add-ons that have been developed using the Weh (WebExtensions Helper) toolkit.

With Weh Inspector, you can:

  • display messages exchanged between the background and the content parts of the add-on
  • show the current content of the storage (HTML5 and WebExtensions stores)
  • read and modify the add-on preferences

To use Weh Inspector, just right click the window to display the context menu and pick "Weh Inspector" to open the inspector tab. The extension will discover automatically other add-ons developed using Weh and will offer them in a dropdown menu for you to pick which one you want to debug.

Weh is a toolkit to create very quickly add-ons for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and Vivaldi. It is open-source code available from https://github.com/mi-g/weh . Weh Inspector was developed using Weh.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Weh Inspector requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Weh Inspector has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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