Chrome extension source viewer chrome extension

What is Chrome extension source viewer?

Chrome extension source viewer is a tab manager extension for chrome. also, it is file downloader extension. it's a free extension , it has 100,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.59 from 389 rated user, last update is 730 days ago.

What’s new in version 1.6.13?

                View the source code of any Chrome extension in the Chrome Web store without installing it.

Features:
- Button at the Chrome Web store
  - Download extension as zip file
  - View source
  - Configurable via context menu on button: Set one-click action via "primary action on click".
- View source:
  - File name/type filter
  - Search in the file content (literal or regexp)
  - Automatic beautification (formatting) of code
  - Syntax highlighting
  - Show hashes (md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512) of individual files
  - Image preview
  - View embedded zip files
  - View any zip file by URL or file chooser
  - View source of platform-specific extensions (such as Chrome OS-only extensions, or NaCl for a different architecture).
  - Permalink to file and search result within a zip or extension file.
- Full support for incognito mode.
- Outputs public key and extension ID to the console.

Optional features (see options page):
- View source of Opera 15+ extensions, Edge extensions, Firefox addons or Thunderbird add-ons.
- "View extension source" contextmenu item on links to Chrome extensions
- View source of Chrome extensions outside the webstore. The View source button becomes visible when you select a CRX file for download.

Source code: https://github.com/Rob--W/crxviewer
Online demo: https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/
Contact: [email protected]

Change log:
- 1.2.3:
 Add "downloads" permission to make sure that the "Download" button always works as intended.
- 1.2.4:
 Add extra parameters to the CRX URL to make sure that CRX files of extensions uploaded to the Chrome Web Store after July 2014 are correctly read.
- 1.2.6: Sync options, use optionsV2, show numeric progress instead of dots, updated JSBeautifier, restore font size.
- 1.2.7: Bugfixes (viewer height, checkbox filter).
- 1.3:
 Support Firefox addons (also available as a Firefox addon!)
 Search within files
 Customize webstore download parameters
 View embedded zip files and any zip file
- 1.3.1: Use correct URL for loading extension files.
- 1.3.2: Bugfix to allow unusual extension URLs to be opened again.
- 1.4: New syntax highlighter, improved search controls, improved word wrap.
- 1.5: Calculate hashes, add link to Github project page, bugfix for case-sensitive search.
- 1.6: Improved search highlighting & also search in beautified content.
- 1.6.2: Configurable "primary action on click", open new tab next to current tab.
- 1.6.4: Support the new CRX3 Chrome extension file format (#62).
- 1.6.6: Permalink support, Firefox add-on finder.
- 1.6.7: Fix broken extension due to bug with storage access and NativeCrxBindings.
- 1.6.8: Support CRX3 file format from CWS; support some other AMO domains.
- 1.6.9: Add option to add the context menu item to more links (#69), open new tabs via context menu next to current tab.
- 1.6.10: Improve syntax highlighting (perf, highlighting of WebAssembly source), show sum of file sizes.
- 1.6.11: Add "Extension ID" row at Analysis of manifest.json, improve CRX3 public key detection, improve zip fallback detection.
- 1.6.12: Support source viewing of Edge and Thunderbird extensions, recognize CRX3 from Opera, update beautifier.
- 1.6.13: Work around Chrome bug that broke the extension button (#120).            

How to install Chrome extension source viewer?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Chrome extension source viewer

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Reviews of chrome extension source viewer:

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Gabriel January 25th, 2023

Just great. More transparency is needed about Chrome extension

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Hubert Ropa January 19th, 2023

Works as intended.

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Marcoo January 10th, 2023

doesn't work on website that disabled it

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