Compare Chrome extensions: Apex Legends Wallpapers HD for New Tab vs LiveHosts
Stats | Apex Legends Wallpapers HD for New Tab | LiveHosts |
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User count | N/A | 10,000+ |
Average rating | 0.00 | 3.47 |
Rating count | 0 | 36 |
Last updated | 2020-03-23 | 2022-03-29 |
Size | 21.77M | 59.17K |
Version | 1.0 | 2.0.0 |
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HD Apex Legends Wallpapers with useful utilities for Chrome New Tab. | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
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Real beauty of such a cool game is captured in our brand new Apex Legends Wallpapers for New Tab Chrome extension. This app is the best tool to renew your Chrome browser and it
Just click on install button and get the best wallpapers and backgrounds for your browser in our Apex Legends 4k Wallpapers Theme HD for New Tab! Installation process is pretty simple, so have no doubts and install our cool Apex Legends Wallpaper HD Theme. Don |
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:
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