# Histogram Viewer

> Generates the histogram of a selected image.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/histogram-viewer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/histogram-viewer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `histogram-viewer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** David Fichtmueller
- **Category:** web-development,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 193
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2008-09-04
- **Size:** 17 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/histogram-viewer/)
- **Website:** [http://www.davidfichtmueller.de/histogramviewer-en.html](http://www.davidfichtmueller.de/histogramviewer-en.html)

## Description

Histogram Viewer is a Firefox add-on that generates histograms of selected images. It provides options to generate grayscale histograms, display statistics, and show histograms for individual color channels.

## Rankings

- #8,511 — Overall
- #5 — autogram
- #20 — program
- #45 — viewer
- #131 — generative
- #172 — history

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://*/*`
- `file:///*`
- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/histogram-viewer)