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Compare Chrome extensions: Planet Coaster Wallpapers New Tab HD vs LiveHosts
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Planet Coaster Wallpapers New Tab HD
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LiveHosts
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| User count | 69 | 10,000+ |
| Average rating | 5.00 | 3.47 |
| Rating count | 1 | 36 |
| Last updated | 2020-01-09 | 2022-03-29 |
| Size | 5.34M | 59.17K |
| Version | 1.0 | 2.0.0 |
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| HD Planet Coaster wallpapers with to-do list and sticky notes in New Tab | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
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We have prepared for you something special! Now you can change you boring standard New Tab with this amazing Planet Coaster Wallpapers Theme. Don`t miss an opportunity to get such a cool backgrounds of the beloved Planet Coaster. We provide you only with the best and the brightest pictures collected in our Planet Coaster Wallpapers HD for New Tab from the whole web. How about to bring something special and unusual into your everyday routine? We can help you to do it with our awesome Planet Coaster Wallpapers Chrome New Tab. After installing our app you will get:
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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:
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