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Can't help casual users, but for power users, this is a very handy tool to inspect the source on-the-fly: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbamfloeabg

• troels 15y ago
  Ah yes, but how can I trust that "Extension Gallery and Web Store Inspector" is safe to install?
  • RyanMcGreal 15y ago
    Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/250/ http://xkcd.com/250/
  • cosgroveb 15y ago
    I'm not sure how you can download an extension before installing but in Ubuntu after you've installed it you can look at the source under ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ (or in Windows C:\Users\You\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User)
  • d0vs 15y ago
    You can inspect it too
• reemrevnivek 15y ago
  The misspelling in the blurb "Crack open any extenstion or web app in a gallery and see what it actually does before installing" doesn't render a lot of trust. s/extenstion/extension/
  • SoftwareMaven 15y ago
    Do you generally measure code quality using typos in unrelated (to the quality, that is) copy? I've seen worse errors in the MySQL docs, but I still trust it to hold data.
  • asknemo 15y ago
    I doubt using typos to discredit other people's work or opinions is rational or polite. I didn't write that extension, but he/she could just be a non-native speaker like me. What's your problem with people who doesn't speak and write in your native language? Can you write in mine, 100% error free? *fixed typo, thx
    • drv 15y ago
      I don't want to be too pedantic, but I thought you might want to know "discrete" is not a verb.
    • epo 15y ago
      No, but I'd certainly have found a spell checker before trying.
    • reemrevnivek 15y ago
      I have absolutely no problems with people who don't speak and write in my native language. You're misinterpreting my comment, which was intended to be constructive, and responding with an ad hominem attack by suggesting that I am bigoted. I think it's quite rational to suggest that work is of dubious quality if something as important as the tagline or elevator pitch contains errors that should be caught by a proofreading or spell-checker. The author spelled it correctly in the title and elsewhere in the text, so it's a simple error, not a lack of knowledge. It would be impolite to not suggest improvements, because the author could use my help. A rational response to my comment would be exactly as you have done with drv's comment: "Fixed typo, thanks!"
  • reemrevnivek 15y ago
    Meta: Wow, I didn't expect to be downvoted for this. I wasn't trying to discredit the extension, I just wanted to be helpful. The attempt at humor probably didn't improve my case any, but I can't edit it anymore. How can I submit comments like this in the future? I didn't see an easy way to submit feedback to serg472 (the author's name isn't clickable, and there's no email as described in http://www.google.com/support/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1053411&rd=1 http://www.google.com/support/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?...), so I dropped it here in case the parent, who was obviously supportive of the extension, wanted to forward it to someone who could take action.