# Lexical Developer Tools

> Adds Lexical debugging tools to the Firefox Developer Tools. It allows you to inspect the Lexical state in the Firefox Developer Tools.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/lexical-developer-tools](https://chrome-stats.com/d/lexical-developer-tools)

## Overview

- **ID:** `lexical-developer-tools`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lexical
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 66
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.33.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-04
- **First published:** 2024-04-17
- **Size:** 268 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lexical-developer-tools/)
- **Website:** [https://lexical.dev](https://lexical.dev/)

## Description

Lexical Developer Tools is a Firefox Developer Tools extension designed to enhance the debugging experience for developers using the Lexical JavaScript text editor framework. By integrating seamlessly into Firefox DevTools, this extension enables you to inspect, monitor, and analyze the internal Lexical state of web pages.

This open-source extension prioritizes user privacy, requiring minimal permissions solely to access the Lexical state locally without transmitting data externally. Developers can leverage it to troubleshoot and optimize their applications built with Lexical, streamlining text editor debugging. The source code is openly available for review and contributions on GitHub at [Lexical DevTools GitHub](https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexical-devtools).

## Rankings

- #14,130 — Overall
- #70 — developer tools
- #90 — developer

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/lexical-developer-tools)