Web Essentials

Interacts with Visual Studio's Browser Link feature
Web Essentials is a Firefox add-on that allows you to access Visual Studio functionality directly from the Firefox address bar. It interacts with Visual Studio's Browser Link feature and requires Visual Studio 2015 or newer, along with specific Visual Studio extensions like Browser Link Inspector 2017, Browser Sync, W3C Validator, and Web Accessibility Checker.
Manifest V2
Daily users:
51 -1
Version:
1.3resigned1 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)
Version code:
5728297
Creation date:
2017-06-13
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size:
20.74K
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Updated:
a day ago

Other platforms

Web Essentials (v1.1)
1,000+ 2.23 (13)

Extension safety

Risk impact

Web Essentials 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.
  • High ******* ******* **** *** ****** ***** *** ***** ** ******* **** ********* ********* ** * *********** *****
Risk likelihood

Web Essentials is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
  • Low **** ********* *** ******* **** **** * ****** **** ***** ******** *** **** ****** ** ** ****** *** *****
  • Low **** ********* *** ***** **** **** * ****** **** ***** ********** *** **** ****** ** ** ****** *** *****
  • Good **** ********* *** **** **** *******
Upgrade to see full risk analysis details

Similar add-ons

Here are some Firefox add-ons that are similar to Web Essentials:

IE View WE IE View WE
ClearCode Inc.
18K 4.31 (75)
Web Developer Web Developer
chrispederick
80K 4.29 (487)
Browser Extension Explorer Browser Extension Explorer
Matt Frisbie
1 0.00 (0)
Web Develope Web Develope
luisaranda999
45 0.00 (0)
Web Developer Toolkit Plus Web Developer Toolkit Plus
33WIN
- 0.00 (0)
WebExplorer WebExplorer
anna
- 0.00 (0)
Web Helper Web Helper
Shendami
1 0.00 (0)
Open Link in Browser As... Open Link in Browser As...
Nikola Kocić
30 3.67 (3)
Webserver Browser Extension Webserver Browser Extension
Jiahao Lu
14 0.00 (0)
Browser's external editor Browser's external editor
Ruslan Osmanov
20 5.00 (2)