Compare Chrome extensions: Area Measure vs ForceCORS

Stats Area Measure Area Measure ForceCORS ForceCORS
User count 2,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 4.36 3.81
Rating count 22 16
Last updated 2017-12-07 2014-03-21
Size 17.75K 81.24K
Version 1.0.0.5 1.1
Short description
Measure area of anything in sq feet, sq meters, sq miles, sq km and acres. Save your map as KML to open in your favorite mapping app Allows forcing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers on any desired URL; helpful when accessing remote services from a local host.
Full summary

Measure area of anything - from your yard to a continent. Creating area is as easy as clicking on the map. Easily move, add and remove way-points to precisely shape your area of interest.

See area in square meters, square feet, square kilometers, square miles and acres. When area is too small to make sense to be measured in larger units, measurement won’t show.

Save your map as KML file so you can share with your friends or load in your favorite mapping apps.

*** The developer of this application does not track your location or points entered in any way. You don't even need to enable location in the browser ***

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