Chrome extension source viewer

View source code of Chrome extensions, Firefox addons or Opera extensions (crx/nex/xpi) from the Chrome web store and elsewhere.

As of May 2026, Chrome extension source viewer has 100,000 users and a 4.59/5 rating from 434 reviews in the Developer Tools category.

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Version
1.7.0
Manifest V3

History

2 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 29, 2026.

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DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Apr 29, 2026100.0K4.584331.7.0
May 26, 2026100.0K4.584331.7.0
Now100.0K4.594341.7.0

Permissions & access

Permissions
tabsstoragecontextMenusdownloadsdeclarativeContent
Host access
*://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx*, *://clients2.googleusercontent.com/crx/download/*

Screenshots

Chrome extension source viewer screenshot 1Chrome extension source viewer screenshot 2

About

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).
- 1.7.0: Support new Chrome Web Store (#134), and migrate to Manifest Version 3.

Technical

Version
1.7.0
Manifest
V3
Size
227KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
Yes

Metadata

ID
jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin
Developer ID
u336687fa160e58e37c25213d6e79c1b9
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Apr 23, 2013
Last Updated (Store)
Dec 11, 2023
Last Scraped
May 26, 2026
Website

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