Compare Chrome extensions: Fix Lightshot vs ForceCORS

Stats Fix Lightshot Fix Lightshot ForceCORS ForceCORS
User count 4,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 3.55 3.81
Rating count 20 16
Last updated 2018-02-20 2014-03-21
Size 32.74K 81.24K
Version 1.0 1.1
Short description
In Februrary 2018, Lightshot (https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html), a populat screenshot sharing service, changed their website… Allows forcing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers on any desired URL; helpful when accessing remote services from a local host.
Full summary

In Februrary 2018, Lightshot (https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html), a populat screenshot sharing service, changed their website to make it more difficult to view the source image of your screenshot.

In response, this extension allows you to bypass the https://prnt.sc page altogether, and instead directly loads the source URL of the image you're trying to view.

ForceCORS is a Google Chrome extension which allows you to selectively apply CORS Headers to any web server responses you choose. This is extremely helpful when developing a web application that makes Ajax/XHR requests.

The extension requires you to specify the domains that you wish to monitor and allows you to explicitly define the headers to be added. This is preferable to completely disabling XHR security in your browser, which is a big security hole.

Regarding Permissions In order to allow you to append headers to ANY arbitrary location, this extension requires access to intercept ANY web request. However, by default the extension does NOT monitor any web traffic. Only URLs you specifically whitelist will be read by the extension, and only headers that YOU specify will be appended.

Note: Headers added by this extension will not appear in the DevTools "Network" panel due to a known Chrome bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=258064

This extension is open source under the MIT License and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/chrisdeely/ForceCORS