Breakpoint
The easiest way to find the break points in your responsive web designs.
What is Breakpoint?
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Summary
Breakpoint lets you use your keyboard to resize your browser window - one pixel at a time. Therefore it is the perfect companion when you are trying to find the exact pixel where your responsive websites break.
How to use These are the default settings, you can change them in "Window" > "Extensions", then scroll down to the bottom and to the right you will find "Keyboard Shortcuts". Please note: Since Chrome version 29 these are not set by default anymore! You now have to set them manually when you install the extension.
Alt + Left Arrow: Decrease the width of the window by 1px Alt + Right Arrow: Increase the width of the window by 1px (Add Shift to any of the combinations to change it by 10px)
Breakpoint also has the ability to change the height of the browser window, but you have to manually activate it in "Window" > "Extensions" > "Keyboard Shortcuts".
When you find the break point you are looking for the tiny icon in the toolbar will tell you the exact size of you browser window.
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Pros
- Useful for web developers
- Has keyboard shortcuts for increasing and decreasing window width
- Was handy in previous versions
Cons
- Stops working after reopening the browser
- Doesn't update window size when dragging
- Doesn't work with recent Chrome versions
- Icon space is too small, showing only first two digits of window size
- Doesn't work on some systems like MacOS, PC or Chromium
Most mentioned
- It doesn't work
- Extension doesn't update window size
- Works fine with keyboard shortcuts
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Safety
Risk impact
Breakpoint is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Breakpoint has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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