Chrome-Stats extension
Compare Chrome extensions: Search Dimension Plus vs LiveHosts
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Search Dimension Plus
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LiveHosts
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| User count | 53 | 10,000+ |
| Average rating | 3.00 | 3.47 |
| Rating count | 4 | 36 |
| Last updated | 2017-12-05 | 2022-03-29 |
| Size | 15.80M | 59.17K |
| Version | 3.4 | 2.0.0 |
| Short description | |
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| Easily control Google Chrome search & design settings from your new tab | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
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Take back control over your Google Chrome search settings. Extension configures your New Tab page and Default Search to Search Dimension settings. Select one of the top search engines as your default search:
Send us your suggestions to make Search Dimension even better! TOS: |
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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