Meta Pixel Helper
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CRX ID
fdgfkebogiimcoedlicjlajpkdmockpc
Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
The Meta Pixel Helper is a troubleshooting tool that helps you validate your pixel implementation.
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Description from store
The Meta Pixel Helper is a tool that helps you validate your pixel implementation and your business setup.The Meta Pixel Helper works in the background to look for conversion or Meta pixels and provides realtime feedback and optimizations for your setup.
A small number will appear on the Meta Pixel Helper icon to indicate number of pixel events. When clicked, a panel will expand to show a detailed overview of the page's pixels, including warnings, errors and successes. Learn more about using Meta pixels here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/meta-pixel
By clicking Add to Chrome, you agree that your use of this extension, including the data you authorize Meta to access via this extension, is subject to Meta’s Terms of Service (https://www.facebook.com/legal/technology_terms).
Latest reviews
- Siwit PRO
- This application is extremely poorly optimized. I strongly do not recommend using it. As soon as it runs, it immediately causes a significant CPU load and slows down the browser. A tool that is supposed to help developers should not negatively affect system performance like this. Overall, a very disappointing and unreliable extension.
- Julian
- This is a trillion dollar company and they make an app that took approximately 70% of my CPU usage, made my computer overheat for days and took me 1 hour of research to find the problem. Very bad job Meta, why update the previous Chrome extension app that worked well to introduce a product that 1) asks you to login (unnecessary, does not push towards transparency and openness of the internet, annoying) and 2) is not even properly troubleshooted to avoid damaging your user's hardware. giving it 1 star because I can't give 0 I honestly feel the users affected by this should get compensation from the damage caused to our devices.
- Carlos Rodríguez (Carlitos)
- Mid March 2026 version makes the device use a lot of CPU and thus increasing temperatures and shorten battery life. Reported on both macOS and Windows. Just by disabling the extension, the temperatures start to drop and the fans slow down.
- Rokeybur Rahman (Rokey)
- Very high cpu in mac. using too much power draw.
- Christos Athanasiadis
- It's confirmed to use a vast amount of CPU cycles. Avoid at all costs
- Olivier VIT et équipe RESONEO
- Version 4.0.4 uses 20% of CPU while not being logged into Meta, please fix this major issue !
- Anthony GRUTTER
- Consume a lot of CPU suddently. I disabled it and my battery is safe again.
- James Monroe
- Suddenly its using massive amounts of CPU and overheating my laptop. Specifically this extension's service worker chrome-extension://fdgfkebogiimcoedlicjlajpkdmockpc/background.iife.js process was using all available CPU in a single thread. Disabling the extension immediately fixed the issue. Reenabled it? back to 100% CPU usage on that background process.
- Joshua Maddux
- I have been having a memory issue on my Mac... After uninstalling ONLY this extension the issue went away.
- Daniil
- My mac started overheating and using significant energy even on idle, took me a while to find the source of the problem. It was this extension in chrome – the energy impact went from 100-150 to 2000 and CPU load from 5% on one core to 60% on 2 cores with NO TABS OPEN except for the "new tab". Disabling the extention immediately dropped energy impact to 0.5 on idle (from freaking 2000.0) and CPU load for chrome dropped to sub 0 as well. This is beyond malitious and I hope this review will save some people from doing long term harm to their devices.
- Will Hann
- Latest version is useless
- Philipp Steiner
- Very bad update, the previous version so far better. Please restore the old version.
- Artūras Bobinas
- sometimes it even works...
- Trey Sobers
- Thought it was just me...no longer works
- Aidin B
- Last update broke it
- Diego ALPES
- Stopped working after the latest update...
- Buyaz Bangladesh
- Very bad update, not useful at all and the previous version so far better than new update. Please restore the old version or revise the new update.
- Takács Tamás
- This version triggers a javascript error: "WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:8081/' failed:"
- Acworldonline
- Please return to the old version. The new version is not working good.
- Mark Brown
- HORRIBLE update forcing side panel use and click through just to see the events and data. This was extremely useful in its previous form with the simple dropdown (and even better when it used to show the pixel's name). Whoever redesigned it obviously never used the tool for creating and testing events.
- Eduard Doloc
- works so great that it requires you to login to facebook in order for you to do some developer work. funny thing is I test incognito always so I cannot test this because incognito my fb session does not exist. Something you would expect from Meta's QA team.
- Ozzie (Ozzie)
- Update made it completely useless, I don't have (and don't want) access to the Meta side for the sites I manage, I just need to know that the pixel fired...
- Ricardo Ribeiro
- It stopped working after the update. It's become awful!!!
- Ana i Aleksa UGC Creators
- Please fix functionality with Comet Browser from Perplexity AI.
- Eric Richard
- I don't get it. The extension was fine. Why the hassle of log in?
- Joackim Amundsen
- New version sucks. Should be no need to log into FB to use an extension. Return the old version.
- Harun Ar Rashid
- very bad
- Web Tracking
- Please return to the old version. The new version is not working good.
- אוהד שורץ
- why did you change somthing that worked perfect to this?
- Web Analytics
- 4.0 version is bad updates.
- desktop 415
- force to login switching to alternative https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pixel-helper-for-meta/pbidfgcngaghdobpeppgnfgpefengdaj
- Usman Bin Abdullah
- 4.0 version is very bad updates. Previous one is better
- Dmitry Zhdanov
- Login to Meta is mandatory now. Awful decision, it's almost useless now, want to find any alternative. I bet every changes was made for additional tracking users in Chrome.
- Valentyn Khursa
- it's not work after the update
- Fer Web
- Mandatory login for the new version of the extension is complete nonsense and an absolute pain. Old extension was better.
- Dmytro Itkin
- After the latest update, Meta Pixel Helper requires login. Clicking “Log in” opens Facebook in a new tab, but the extension stays logged out, causing a login loop. The extension console also shows a CORS error when sending logs to the Graph API. The issue occurs on all websites and makes the extension unusable.
- fnx interaction
- it's not good after the update
- Darius Mees
- Since the update, you can't use this tool without being logged in. Our Meta Business accounts cannot be used either. So, our agency won't be using the previously very helpful Meta Pixel Helper any longer.
- Reese
- doesnt work after the update, will be uninstalling.
- Erick Aroldo
- Now requires a login. Not using anymore.
- Sava Kovalenko
- After update cannot view the events without loggin in, which is insanely stupid, since I work on multiple accounts in my company for tag implementation and do not have access to a single ad account (since I do not launch ads). Extension has become useless, so have to resort to checking network requests manually.
- Валентин Гавриченко
- after update it is a peace of ch
- Federico Nahmad
- Why would you destroy a good working extension with this new buggy version? Just change the CSS. I would rather check network requests directly.
- Ivan Pelykh
- Mandatory login - is the most stupid decision ever made. Removed.
- Mohammad Shuvo
- Old one was better than new.
- Sergiu Cetulean
- Why would you start requiring people to login in order to use the Helper?
- Federico Pullarà
- Fuck Meta for making the login MANDATORY when it never was needed before.
- Ivan Vladov
- Does not work anymore.
- nel omni
- Forces users to login in order to check if pixel code fired properly. Whoever changed this should be sacked.
- Shihab Uddin
- old is gold