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Salesforce; The newest AI tools and their stunning CRM features is what you can expect it to speed up your business data process, but for developers and administrators that spent their whole days trying to use the tool is clearly in the struggles; Like times when we forgot which data type is that field, we would have to navigate through systems to get the answer we needed.
Søren Krabbe, the GOAT, decided to create Salesforce Inspector; a Chrome-based extension that allows you to inspect data directly from Salesforce UI. This is a game-changer for devs, as it save millions of hours from us being lazy to being productive and start making impact that matters. Reference intended.
But some of the new users that liked to install the extension on Chrome Web Store are alerted with this message:
"This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions."
This simply means the extension will be forever remembered by Google if they don’t update their extension specs (or simply called Manifest v2) to a newer version (v3). Everyone will not be able to download the extension, add to Chrome, or use the ones you already using in your daily lives. [Ref]
While you can still download it today (as of December 2024), Google has scheduled that extensions using Manifest V2 (this one included) would be entirely removed from the Chrome Web Store as late as June 2025 (Enterprise Edition); but most of the people, the timeline will be faster than this. 😱
Therefore, our only options are to either go without the extension or find alternatives. So, what do we do next?!
While there are some people who don't know what is Salesforce Inspector is for, here's some top features I am in love with:
Yes, these features are available on Salesforce, but the extension is made to speed up these frequently-used operations in a daily basis.