Watcher

Select & Watch resources on a page that are frequently updated during development. Watcher will auto-refresh upon change.

Watcher - Chrome Extension

Watcher is a DevTools extension that automatically refreshes inspected pages when changes are detected in selected source files, allowing developers to see their changes in real-time during rapid web application development.

Extension stats

By: https://salmanawan.com

Users: 57

Rating: 1.00

Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2014-02-19)

Creation date: 2014-02-19

Permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 348.16K

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 82,568 ▼ 3,456

Other rankings

#4675 in Developer Tools ▼ 15

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Useless

by

Darren Alexander, 2017-04-20

It doesn't work. I set it to watch a .js file and when I changed the file there was no refresh

by

Steve Janke, 2016-11-01

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Watcher requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Watcher. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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