# marimo Glance

> See marimo notebooks at a glance: run them live, inline on GitHub, gists and Gitlab.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/marimo-glance](https://chrome-stats.com/d/marimo-glance)

## Overview

- **ID:** `marimo-glance`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** marimo
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 13
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 0.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-21
- **First published:** 2026-07-18
- **Size:** 160 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/marimo-glance/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-glance/issues](https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-glance/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/marimo-glance/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/marimo-glance/privacy/)

## Description

marimo notebooks are just Python files, so GitHub, gists, and GitLab display them as plain source code. Marimo Glance spots a real notebook and adds a “Switch to interactive marimo notebook” button in the corner of the page. One click replaces the raw Python with a fully interactive notebook you can run, edit, and explore — without leaving the page, cloning the repo, or installing anything. “See original” flips you back to the source at any time.

The extension watches the files you open on <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/18292d9c1899dd2b453ea9e3c1375587569f07a1d91694af6d865f8eab086cdb/http%3A//github.com" rel="nofollow">github.com</a>, <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/cf3cd4f3fb18a45c1c2f63897e791d11eb79f9bdf934f54389d73b2908caa57d/http%3A//gist.github.com" rel="nofollow">gist.github.com</a>, and <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/897c442e007d4ca7f1fe1de22c4cf5ae73fa80c30e4c1faf82bfc36e3930b32d/http%3A//gitlab.com" rel="nofollow">gitlab.com</a>. On a .py file it looks for a genuine top-level app = marimo.App(...) declaration, so ordinary Python files — and passing mentions of marimo in comments or strings — are left completely alone. When it finds a notebook, it boots it live through the marimo.app playground, running entirely in WebAssembly inside your browser.

The notebook source is packed into the page URL’s fragment (the part after #) and handed straight to the in-browser WASM runtime. Browsers never send that fragment to any server, so your code — private repositories included — is never uploaded by the extension. (The one exception is if you deliberately choose “Open in molab” from inside the notebook, which sends your code to molab to run and share there.)

<ul><li>Runs WebAssembly-compatible notebooks only — anything depending on packages or features unavailable under Pyodide won’t run in the embed.</li><li>The interactive notebook is a scratch space: run and tweak cells freely, but edits aren’t saved back to GitHub/GitLab, and a refresh starts fresh from the original source.</li><li>Switching between interactive and source never restarts a running notebook.</li></ul>
Works on GitHub blobs, GitHub gists, and GitLab blobs.

## Rankings

- #29,647 — Overall
- #89 — fragment
- #113 — notebook

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `*://github.com/*`
- `*://gist.github.com/*`
- `*://gitlab.com/*`
- `*://raw.githubusercontent.com/*`
- `*://gist.githubusercontent.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `gist.github.com`
- `github.com`
- `gitlab.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: github.com, gitlab.com, githubusercontent.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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