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Compare Chrome extensions: Minerva — Create How-To Guides in Seconds vs ForceCORS

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Stats Minerva — Create How-To Guides in Seconds Minerva — Create How-To Guides in Seconds ForceCORS ForceCORS
User count 6,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 5.00 3.81
Rating count 15 16
Last updated 2024-03-12 2014-03-21
Size 468.99K 81.24K
Version 3.0.33 1.1
Short description
Minerva is the easiest way to capture and share clickable instructions for anything on the internet! Allows forcing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers on any desired URL; helpful when accessing remote services from a local host.
Full summary

Create a how-to guide in seconds. Share your guide everywhere.

With Minerva, you can do more online in less time. Our Google Chrome Extension works on top of any website or platform and allows you to capture any process.

Minerva creates three assets automatically for you, while you work:

  • An on-screen guide showing you where to click and what to do next;
  • A video tutorial complete with step text read aloud;
  • An FAQ page with screenshots showing you exactly what to do

Installs in seconds!

  • It only takes two clicks to get started.

Save time! You no longer need to search for a step on a page. Follow the dot during our interactive guide experience and find what you’re looking for easier, and faster.

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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