FontSnoopPrivacy
October 3, 2026
FontSnoop collects no personal data. It operates no servers and makes no network requests. All inspection takes place within the page. Results appear only in the side panel. No data leaves the browser.
Chrome extension permissions
activeTabGrants access to the current tab only when FontSnoop is invoked from the icon, the keyboard shortcut or the Inspect font menu item.scriptingInjects the hover label and highlights into the page.sidePanelDisplays font details alongside the page.contextMenusAdds Inspect font to the context menu.debuggerQueries Chrome for the fonts that rendered the selected text. It runs only when Check is clicked. Chrome displays a notice bar for the duration.storageRecords which tabs have FontSnoop enabled. The record is cleared when the browser closes.