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Stats Tabloc Tabloc ForceCORS ForceCORS
User count 3,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 3.70 3.81
Rating count 27 16
Last updated 2022-07-19 2014-03-21
Size 11.34K 81.24K
Version 0.5 1.1
Short description
Open new tabs when you click links. Allows forcing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers on any desired URL; helpful when accessing remote services from a local host.
Full summary

This extension adds "Lock Tab" icon in the tool bar. When you click links in the locked tab, current page is preserved and new tab opens. Does not works in extensions gallery and framed pages.

Tabloc for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/12536/

Ver.0.5 (2022/07/18)

  • updated to manifest_version 3.
  • uses Storage API to store preferences instead of LocalStorage.
  • simplified the default icons.
  • split the "Auto-Lock URL" for "background tabs", "foreground tabs", and "excluded URLs".
  • automatically adds URLs to the auto-lock URLs when the tab is locked.
  • auto lock URLs are now considered as partial match instead of exact match.
  • added emoji to the locked tab title.
  • merged foreground icon and background icon to one "enabled" icon.
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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