Browser Extensions & DevTools

In-page AI browser agent via a single script tag

Page Agent is Alibaba's open-source JavaScript library that embeds an AI GUI agent directly into any web page through a single script tag injection. Unlike headless browser tools that operate externally, Page Agent works inside the DOM using text-based manipulation for natural language QA testing, enterprise copilots, and making legacy web apps AI-native. It supports BYOLLM with any model provider and requires no backend changes.

Headless browsers in Docker for automation at scale

Browserless is a headless browser-as-a-service platform that deploys Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit in Docker containers for web scraping, testing, and AI agent automation. It provides Puppeteer and Playwright-compatible APIs, a built-in MCP server for connecting AI assistants to browser automation, screenshot and PDF generation, and connection pooling for high-concurrency workloads. Available as self-hosted open source or managed cloud.

Google Chrome Labs visual design tool for editing live web pages

VisBug is a Chrome Labs browser extension that lets developers and designers edit live web pages visually. It provides tools for moving, resizing, and styling elements directly on the page with point-and-click interaction. Features include margin and padding visualization, typography editing, color modification, and accessibility inspection without touching code or opening DevTools.

All-in-one browser DevTools extension for web developers

Hoverify is a browser extension that consolidates essential web development tools into a single overlay interface. It provides element inspection with CSS details, responsive design testing, accessibility checking, color picking, screenshot capture, and asset downloading. Activated by hovering over any webpage element, it provides instant development context without opening browser DevTools.

Browser automation CLI built for AI agents by Vercel Labs

Agent Browser is a Rust-based browser automation CLI designed specifically for AI agent workflows rather than traditional testing. Developed by Vercel Labs, it provides semantic element selection through a refs system, accessibility tree snapshots, session persistence, and authentication vaults. Unlike Playwright or Puppeteer which target test automation, Agent Browser optimizes for token efficiency and deterministic element selection that gives LLMs reliable browser interaction capabilities.

Browser-native frontend coding agent for production codebases

Stagewise is an open-source frontend coding agent with 6,500+ GitHub stars that runs directly in the browser on localhost. YC S25 backed, it lets developers and designers point-and-prompt on live web applications with full devtools and console access, bridging the gap between visual editing and production codebase modification.

AI-powered vision-driven UI automation for web, Android, and iOS

Midscene.js is an open-source UI automation framework from ByteDance's Web Infra team that uses vision-based AI models to understand and interact with interfaces. It replaces fragile CSS selectors with natural language descriptions, supporting web browsers via Playwright and Puppeteer, Android via ADB, and iOS via WebDriverAgent from a unified JavaScript SDK.

Scalable browser infrastructure for AI agents

Hyperbrowser is a YC S24-backed cloud browser platform purpose-built for AI agent automation at scale. It provides managed browser instances with built-in CAPTCHA solving, residential proxy rotation, and anti-bot bypass, serving as the infrastructure layer that tools like browser-use, Stagehand, and Skyvern run on top of for reliable web interaction.

Mozilla-backed browser infrastructure for AI agents

Tabstack is Mozilla's browser infrastructure service for AI agents, providing clean markdown extraction, structured JSON data, and automated browser actions through a fast API. With two-tier fetch escalation that achieves sub-600ms latency for static pages, robots.txt compliance, and ephemeral data handling, it offers an ethical alternative to aggressive web scraping tools — complete with an MCP server for Claude and Cursor integration.

Browser automation framework turning websites into action APIs

Notte is a browser automation framework for AI agents that converts any website into a structured action API. Instead of scraping pages for text, Notte lets agents interact with sites — clicking buttons, filling forms, and navigating flows. Built with hybrid AI-plus-deterministic scripting, it includes digital personas, CAPTCHA solving, and proxy management for reliable automation at scale.

Google's Core Web Vitals extension

Enterprise monitoring and observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and security data in a single dashboard. AI-powered anomaly detection and automated root cause analysis help teams resolve incidents faster. Integrates with 750+ technologies out of the box, making it the comprehensive observability solution for complex distributed systems.

Website technology lookup

Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. The standard for metrics collection in cloud-native environments with a powerful query language (PromQL), time-series database, and flexible alerting rules. Core component of the CNCF ecosystem, often paired with Grafana for visualization across Kubernetes and microservice architectures.

Developer news aggregator

Open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform. Create dashboards from dozens of data sources including Prometheus, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and InfluxDB. The most popular observability dashboard with 65k+ GitHub stars, offering alerting, annotations, and a vast plugin ecosystem that makes it the universal frontend for infrastructure and application monitoring.

Hundreds of GitHub UI enhancements

Open-source browser extension with hundreds of small UX improvements to GitHub: cleaner diffs, one-click PR merging, reaction avatars, linkified commit SHAs, and much more. Fixes dozens of long-standing GitHub UI annoyances that power users encounter daily, making the GitHub web experience feel polished and efficient without waiting for official feature updates.

GitHub code navigation sidebar

Browser extension that adds a file tree sidebar to GitHub repositories for easy code navigation. Browse files and folders without leaving the current page, with support for private repos, pull request code review navigation, file search, bookmarks, and theming. Works with GitHub Enterprise. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Essential for navigating large GitHub repos without cloning. Freemium with Pro features for advanced code review and multiple GitHub accounts.

Pretty-print JSON in the browser

Open-source browser extension that automatically pretty-prints JSON responses in the browser tab. Supports collapsible nodes, syntax highlighting, and raw/formatted toggle. Essential developer tool for anyone who works with APIs regularly, turning unreadable JSON blobs into navigable, color-coded trees that make debugging API responses significantly faster and less error-prone.

Time-travel debugging for Redux

Browser extension for inspecting and debugging Redux state management in React applications. Features time-travel debugging to replay actions step-by-step, state diff viewer showing exactly what changed, action log with payload inspection, state import/export, and ability to dispatch actions manually. Supports Redux Toolkit and legacy Redux. Available for Chrome, Firefox, and as a standalone Electron app. Essential for debugging complex Redux state flows in production and development.

Console for mobile browsers

Open-source desktop application for running local LLMs with a clean chat interface. Supports GGUF model format with one-click downloads from Hugging Face. Provides OpenAI-compatible local API server for development. The most user-friendly way to run open-source language models locally, making local AI accessible to developers without deep ML infrastructure knowledge.

Web page quality auditing

Google's open-source automated tool for auditing web page performance, accessibility, SEO, best practices, and Progressive Web App compliance. Generates detailed reports with actionable improvement suggestions and scores from 0-100 for each category. Built into Chrome DevTools, available as a CLI tool, Node.js module, and via PageSpeed Insights web interface. Essential for web performance optimization and meeting Core Web Vitals thresholds that affect Google search rankings.

Identify web technologies

Technology detection tool that identifies the tech stack behind any website — frameworks, CMS, analytics, CDNs, payment processors, and 1,500+ other technologies. Available as a browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, Edge), API, CLI, and bulk lookup service. Useful for competitive analysis, sales prospecting, lead enrichment, and technology trend research. Acquired by Crimson Hexagon (now Brandwatch). Free browser extension with paid API and enterprise tiers for large-scale lookups.

The browser for ambitious developers

Standalone browser built specifically for web developers and designers that shows multiple synchronized viewports side by side for responsive design testing. Features accessibility inspector (WCAG compliance checking), visual regression testing via screenshots, layout debugging overlays, meta tag validator, social media preview cards, and color contrast checker. Reduces the need for constant resizing and device switching during front-end development. Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Responsive web development tool

Open-source browser for responsive web development that shows multiple device viewports simultaneously with synchronized scrolling, clicking, and navigation. Preview your site on phone, tablet, and desktop sizes side by side in real-time. Features screenshot capture for all viewports, element inspector, network monitoring, and hot-reload support. Built on Chromium. Free alternative to Polypane for developers who need quick responsive testing without paid subscriptions. 23K+ GitHub stars.

Debug Vue.js applications

Official browser DevTools extension for Vue.js providing deep inspection of component trees, reactive state, props, events, and slots. Includes Pinia/Vuex store debugging with time-travel, Vue Router inspection, performance timeline, and component highlighting. Works with Vue 2 and Vue 3. Available for Chrome and Firefox with standalone Electron app. Essential for debugging reactivity and understanding component hierarchies in Vue applications.

Inspect React component trees

Official browser extension by Meta for inspecting and debugging React component trees, props, state, hooks, and context in real-time. Features component highlighting on hover, profiler for measuring render performance and identifying bottlenecks, and component search/filtering. Supports React 16+ including Suspense, error boundaries, and concurrent features. Available for Chrome and Firefox. Essential for debugging re-renders, state management issues, and understanding component hierarchies.