Pesticide icon

Pesticide

by London App Brewery · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

A CSS debugging tool that inserts outlines onto all elements to help with debugging layout issues

Users
200K
0 in 30 days
Rating
3.4 / 5
−0.62 in 30 days
Ratings
145
−1 in 30 days
Store rank
#1,321
#1,191 among extensions
Version
2.0.0
updated 10 Mar 2025

Users

monthly, 3 years
60K180K300KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 200,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
1078146Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 145 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Pesticide

This extension inserts the Pesticide CSS into the current page, outlining each element to better see placement on the page. This is a forked copy of Pesticide created originally by Adam Morse: https://github.com/mrmrs/pesticide This copy of Pesticide is created for students on the Complete Web Development Bootcamp by Dr. Angela Yu. https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-web-development-bootcamp/

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%−1−0.62
30 days0+0.0%−1−0.62
6 months0+0.0%+2−0.66
1 year0+0.0%+7−0.64

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Pesticide appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
development#48+19
complete#68+19

Version history

2 versions recorded
2.0.010 Mar 2025
1.18 Nov 2021

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
8 Nov 2021
Size
24 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
bakpbgckdnepkmkeaiomhmfcnejndkbi

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 2, likelihood 1
Permissions
activeTabscripting

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