Compare Chrome extensions: Ralph Breaks the Internet Wallpaper HD NEW vs LiveHosts

Stats Ralph Breaks the Internet Wallpaper HD NEW Ralph Breaks the Internet Wallpaper HD NEW LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 2 10,000+
Average rating 0.00 3.47
Rating count 0 36
Last updated 2019-02-19 2022-03-29
Size 8.44M 59.17K
Version 2.0 2.0.0
Short description
Ralph Breaks the Internet HD Wallpapers and New Tab Themes for the Best Browsing Experience Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Forget boring backgrounds that will not look interesting. Make sure you have the best extension and choose the best photos for your browser backgrounds. Download the background of Ralph Breaks the Internet and enjoy photos every time you open a new tab. In addition to getting quality HD resolution pictures, there are many features that will make your search easier and not just decorate it. You can download the extension for free and will not slow down your browser's performance or endanger it.

HOW TO USE:

  • Install This extension by clicking on Add to Chrome button and it will be automatically added. Wait for few seconds while extension is loaded, the best follows!
  • In the upper left corner, "GEAR". That loads settings panel, where you can use toggle button for switching features on or off. Ralph Breaks the Internet extension have options for you to have only HD backgrounds (pick favorite or make it random) or use some of great features.

FEATURES

  • Centered, clock (12h/24h option) with personalized greeting for you to choose (ex. nickname)
  • Great To-Do list so you can track important stuff
  • Shortcuts to popular sites (click on Link icon in upper left corner).
  • Quotes of the Day – be inspired with strong quotes, picked every day for you and your motivation.
  • Click on Gear icon in upper left corner - Choose to have only wallpaper, or pick feature that you want.
  • In same panel, click on Photos, and choose your favorite photo, or click on “Refresh” button next to gear to pick next wallpaper.
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LiveHosts is a Chrome extension that aims at providing a working (even if sub-obtimal) solution to a common nuisance that many web developers have to deal with every day. If you have multiple versions of your websites sharing the same host names on multiple environments, you often need to switch the assignments in your OS hosts file.

Other extensions (like the life-saving HostAdmin) can help with the cumbersomeness, but changes to the hosts file usually take an inconvenient amount of time to actually affect the browser.

Unfortunately, there is no way to make Chrome direct requests for a hostname to a specific IP without a standard redirect - you could set up a smart HTTP proxy, but it's often not possible or not convenient.

This extension settles for a sub-obtimal approach: requests to the indicated hostnames are redirected to the chosen IPs with an additional Host header. The browser's address bar reflects this behaviour showing the hostname right after the IP (e.g. http://127.0.0.1/www.example.com/). The extension also tries to take care of all requests to either the IP or the hostname in a consistent way.

Issues

After the redirect, the user is effectively in a different domain that the one they expected. They may notice some functional differences:

  • depending on the server, parts of a web page referring to the site URL (like href and src attributes) could be different from the original
  • window.location has a different value that can potentially throw off JavaScript snippets
  • most Cross-Origin request won't work