Google Tag Assistant & Facebook Pixel Helper
Hey guys, I have a deep desire to move to Firefox from Chrome. I know how much data Google collects on me and it makes me die a little bit inside. I am a web developer and digital advertising professional so I am in front of my computer 10 hours a day and have customized my browser to fit my needs perfectly. Firefox Developer has gotten better and better but its missing 2 features (or addons) that keep me from switching. Google Tag Assistant and Facebook Pixel Helper. Every single website I go to I look to see if they have a pixel or google tracking installed because it basically lets me see who my potential customers are and every time I try to switch to Firefox, this is the feature I miss the most. Do you guys have a plugin or is this in the pipeline to add? If it was I would switch over the second it came out!
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Well, the first one is a Google extension, so they don't have an incentive to create a version for Firefox:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tag-assistant-by-google/kejbdjndbnbjgmefkgdddjlbokphdefk
The second one is a Facebook extension, so they might be willing to create a Firefox version:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-pixel-helper/fdgfkebogiimcoedlicjlajpkdmockpc
If either extension has an open source license, it could legally be directly ported over to Firefox. Not sure who will want to do that.
Perhaps there are unofficial tools that will meet your needs? If you only need to find a tag in the current page, you probably do not need such full featured extensions. What information do you need to extract?
I know its google and I doubt they would ever port it to Firefox. What I am really looking for is if the given website has a pixel installed or analytics/tag manager installed. Definitely don't need these exact plugins but that is currently what I used and it works. When you open a new page it will have a number pop up on it and it tells you exactly how many pixels fired and how many tag manager events exist. This basically tells me if a business is using ads because if they don't have these installed more than likely they don't have ads. Its an easy way for me to target customers. In addition, this is an easy way for me to test all the new websites I build to make sure everything is firing.
Perhaps you could get started by using Firefox for your personal browsing and keeping Chrome for your business browsing?