Reviews for Extension source viewer
Extension source viewer by Rob W
Review by White_Oz
Rated 5 out of 5
by White_Oz, 6 years agoThank you Rob!
Works great even with FF older than 57.
For people who, do not understand much about javascript,css syntax or even html, but know how an ip and web-page address looks like, it is till useful to look at an extension source code.
In that regard would be very useful if you could made somehow a filter(search) that finds web-pages and ip adresses inside the source code of the extension. Now, someone can manually find them either by looking to all the lines in all the files(which is too much for most of us), or by searching "something", like '!.com' and then going with "next" trough all the files, but there are a lot of finds that are not addresses, like for ex. ".comments". The idea is to hit some desirably "search addresses" and to find only ip and web adresses, so then we could jump to each of them inside the code and decide next if further investigation or not is needed. Well, I was dreaming with my eyes open, but anyway, even if you wont do what I was trying to explain, you already have done a good job for over simplifying the reading of the source code.
Someone mentioned earlier in a comment, something about firewall for Firefox....well, uMatrix is the closest FF extension to a real firewall, that I know of. Check it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Cheers!
Works great even with FF older than 57.
For people who, do not understand much about javascript,css syntax or even html, but know how an ip and web-page address looks like, it is till useful to look at an extension source code.
In that regard would be very useful if you could made somehow a filter(search) that finds web-pages and ip adresses inside the source code of the extension. Now, someone can manually find them either by looking to all the lines in all the files(which is too much for most of us), or by searching "something", like '!.com' and then going with "next" trough all the files, but there are a lot of finds that are not addresses, like for ex. ".comments". The idea is to hit some desirably "search addresses" and to find only ip and web adresses, so then we could jump to each of them inside the code and decide next if further investigation or not is needed. Well, I was dreaming with my eyes open, but anyway, even if you wont do what I was trying to explain, you already have done a good job for over simplifying the reading of the source code.
Someone mentioned earlier in a comment, something about firewall for Firefox....well, uMatrix is the closest FF extension to a real firewall, that I know of. Check it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Cheers!
108 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by kgersen, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by geeknik, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by decembre, a year agoWell done!
Note:
Seems to have some problem with Waterfox Classic:
i don't see the CRX icon in the adress bar
- click on the "install button" of an addon and chose "view with CRX (in mozilla addon pages) don't show the code (error massage).
But work if i want inspect a downloaded addon ;-) - Rated 5 out of 5by gamma, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sneetsher, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NUH, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FFclassic, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Astarte, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16725907, 2 years agoShould really be available by default. Installing an addon is like rolling the dice as to whether it is malicious. This lets you see what is going on behind the scenes so you can see what services it may be calling.
- Rated 5 out of 5by kcufuoyeid, 2 years agoUnder rated gem. essential if you conveniently want to see what an add-on is made of before you install. It's criminal Mozilla has not yet endorsed this add-on since they can't be bothered to check add-ons themselves anymore.
- Rated 4 out of 5by jokenngo, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dewnan, 3 years agoThank you for fixing this, the update didn't work, I had to uninstall the old version then reinstall the new one... THANK YOU
The BEST if you install addons... see the code, is it dubious or not. More people should use it, but dummies be and dummies Chrome. FF users in the know GOT THIS! - Rated 5 out of 5by emvaized, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by askolvid, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BF76, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kurotaku, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 5638639, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13853249, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16828216, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Hassan, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by M*****, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Raymond Hill, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Elvin Aslanov, 4 years ago