Chris Pederick

chrispederick.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007

Chris Pederick is the developer of the Web Developer browser extension and writes about its releases and security.

What HN saysCommenters praise the Web Developer toolbar as a great tool, and cite his post on the Chrome extension being compromised when discussing extension malware.
15HN people shared it
13linked it in comments
2stories submitted
2story points
7 years agolast shared
2007people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Web developer
    8 people · first shared 2007
  2. 2
    Web Developer (Plugin) for Chrome Compromised
    3 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    User agent switcher
    2 people · first shared 2013
  4. 4
    What's new in v0.4 of Web Developer Extension for Chrome
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
  5. 5
    Chrome
    1 people · first shared 2017

What HN people wrote when they linked it

stblack · 2019-11-13
At the risk of "OK Boomer" replies... Chris Pedrick's Web Developer Toolbar, an extension that was once the greatest thing, does this and many other useful and insightful things. My fave, I think, is Information -> View Document Outline, which is pivotal for gaming Google SEO, by telling you how your Heading tags semantically convey the page's story. https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
GrumpyNl · 2017-08-16
Don't know his score but its a great tool WebDeveloper. http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/chrome/
elxx · 2010-11-24
Web Developer is a Firefox favorite of mine that also has a Chrome version available now. (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/)
geekamongus · 2017-08-25
Yes, but do you enable two-factor auth on your developer account(s)? https://chrispederick.com/blog/web-developer-for-chrome-compromised/
drtz · 2017-08-02
The popular (> 1 million installs) Chrome extension "Web Developer" was compromised this morning. The hacked version of the extension has already been removed from the Chrome Web Store. If you have the extension installed you should disable it and reset passwords for any sites you visited this morning. https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
chei0aiV · 2016-01-11
With an extension to this extension, yes: http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
mattmanser · 2013-06-26
No, you're wrong. You weren't around obviously, so you probably don't know it was in Beta for donkeys. I actually remember first using it in 2006. Here's an article about the beta 1 refresh from Nov 2005, so it was out even earlier than that. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/11/01/487833.aspx Your google-fu needs a lot of work as even my first search showed a lot of articles in 2006 and 2007 talking about the IE dev toolbar, e.g.: http://betanews.com/2007/05/10/microsoft-releases-ie-developer-toolbar… EDIT: Interestingly reading through some of the comments on the first post, it seems people claim the IE dev toolbar was inspired by http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ and the initial release date for the IE Dev toolbar was Sept 2005 (see http://c82.net/posts.php?id=23)
nekgrim · 2013-03-21
ethanpil · 2013-03-05
My suggestion is to take a look at this plugin and make everything about it better and faster: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ I use this thing several hours per day.
ck2 · 2011-06-14
On Firefox (and now Chrome apparently) web developer plugin. http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Tools -> Web Developer -> Resize
nickb · 2007-08-27
Thanks! I'll back up my FF folder and give 3 a try. Yes, WebDev extension is awesome! http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
uaygsfdbzf · 2014-12-21
There are at least three addons that allow viewing network activity with Firefox: https://getfirebug.com/ http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-http-headers I haven't tried it but I expect the developer edition does too: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/

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