How Fugu is the Web? icon

How Fugu is the Web?

by Thomas Steiner · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

An extension to shine light on the Project Fugu 🐡 APIs web apps want to use.

Users
38
−3 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#120K
#100K among extensions
Version
1.24.0
updated 10 Dec 2025

Users

monthly, 3 years
104580Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 38 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
001Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About How Fugu is the Web?

How it works API data The raw data for the different Project Fugu 🐡 APIs is curated in a spreadsheet, which is then turned into JavaScript, so keeping the list of APIs updated is hopefully a straightforward task. API detection The extension monitors the requests a page makes via the chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener() API. Each response body, grouped by main frame, JavaScript, and Web App Manifest response bodies, is then run through a set of regular expressions like /navigator\.hid\.requestDevice\s*\(/g to determine if the code hints at a Project Fugu 🐡 API potentially being used. Browser support detection Most Project Fugu 🐡 APIs are easily feature-detectable by checking for the existence of interfaces or properties, for example, as in 'BarcodeDetector' in window. Other APIs require a ServiceWorkerRegistration, but luckily the popup window in Manifest V3 extensions uses a service worker, so it can be used via an IIFE that can be run in the client or the service worker. An example is (async () => 'periodicSync' in (await navigator.serviceWorker?.ready || self.registration))(). The support categories are listed below: ✔️ Supported by your browser. 🚫 Not supported by your browser. 🤷 Support unknown for your browser. (The only way to know would be user-agent sniffing.) Deep-linking The extension makes use of Text Fragment URLs to deep-link to the occurrence of a detected API, for example https://airhorner.com/scripts/main.min.js#:~:text=navigator.setAppBadge(. For main frame documents, the source code gets rendered in a helper HTML page controlled by the extension, since it is impossible to link to view-source: protocol links. Limitations • The chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener() API unfortunately does not "see" requests that are handled by a service worker (crbug.com/766433). There are three possible workarounds for this: - Hard-reload via ⌘/ctrl+shift+r. - Open DevTools and check the Bypass for network checkbox in the Service Worker section of the Application tab. - Clear storage in the Storage section of the Application tab. • The extension only does static code analysis, that is, there is no guarantee that the app actually uses the code snippet where a Project Fugu 🐡 API was detected. • Heavily minified code will not be detected. For example, if an app minifies navigator.clipboard.write() to const nav = navigator; nav.clipboard.write(), the extension will not detect this. License Apache 2.0.

Growth

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30 days−3−7.3%00.00
6 months−5−11.6%00.00
1 year−8−17.4%00.00

Version history

26 versions recorded
1.24.010 Dec 2025
1.23.07 Jul 2025
1.20.05 Mar 2025
1.19.130 Jul 2024
1.19.04 Jul 2024
1.17.010 Jan 2024
1.16.09 Oct 2023
1.15.113 Jun 2023

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
23 Jun 2021
Size
125 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
raw.githubusercontent.com
Support
github.com
Extension ID
apcghpabklkjjgpfoplnglnjghonjhdl

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 3, likelihood 2
Permissions
activeTabwebRequestwebNavigation
Site access
https://*/*
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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