Compare Chrome extensions: Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers New Tab vs LiveHosts

Stats Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers New Tab Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers New Tab LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 1 10,000+
Average rating 0.00 3.47
Rating count 0 36
Last updated 2020-12-10 2022-03-29
Size 6.26M 59.17K
Version 2.0 2.0.0
Short description
Personalized New Tab Page With Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers and Other Features. Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers New Tab - By Megathemes

This extension will be perfect for Fortnite fans. Install this app and get perfect Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers for your browser!

What do you get?

  • Mave Fortnite Skin Wallpapers in HD quality;
  • Links button which lets you quickly access some of the most popular sites, such as YouTube, Google, or Facebook;
  • Digital clock placed in the center. You can pick 12h or 24h format and even choose whether you want it to display time with seconds, or not;
  • Special greeting placed in the center, which lets you add your own name;
  • Add Todo list by clicking on "Todo" button in the lower right corner;
  • Inspiring quotes that will show up each time you open a new tab page;
  • Refresh button, placed in the lower left corner;
  • Settings button in the lower left corner which gives you the ability to enable or disable all features, choose your favorite wallpapers, enable Todo list or expand it, adjust the clock, enable links or expand them, turn search on or off, and enable or disable quotes
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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