# WebGPU Inspector

> WebGPU Inspector is a Developer Tools extension for debugging WebGPU content. It intercepts all WebGPU objects and commands, allowing you to inspect information about any GPU object and capture frames.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/webgpu-inspector](https://chrome-stats.com/d/webgpu-inspector)

## Overview

- **ID:** `webgpu-inspector`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** brendan-duncan
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 103
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 1.7.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-06
- **First published:** 2025-07-25
- **Size:** 442 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/webgpu-inspector/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/brendan-duncan/webgpu\_inspector/issues](https://github.com/brendan-duncan/webgpu_inspector/issues)

## Description

WebGPU Inspector is a Developer Tools extension for debugging WebGPU content. It intercepts all WebGPU objects and commands, allowing you to inspect information about any GPU object and capture frames.

Key features include:
- Inspect any WebGPU object, with a stacktrace for where it was created.
- Capture frames, including all commands, buffers, textures, and render pass results.
- Catch errors compiling shader modules and pipelines.
- Display textures, at any mip level.
- Edit shaders live on the page to debug and test shader changes.
- Debug shaders (highly experimental, work in progress, limited to compute shaders).
- Plot frame times and GPU object counts over time for profiling information.
- View uniform and storage buffer content used for draw and dispatch calls.
- Record all commands and data used to render a set of frames, generating a standalone HTML file that can recreate the render.

## Rankings

- #11,697 — Overall
- #104 — commands
- #112 — debug
- #120 — insert
- #127 — command
- #144 — inject

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- 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/webgpu-inspector)