Work Offline

Brings work offline and online in the web page level to your browser

What is Work Offline?

'Work Offline' is a handy Chrome extension specifically designed to make the web browsing user experience more efficient. It provides the user with the ability to toggle between online and offline modes, with the offline mode preventing web requests from being sent or received by web pages. Notable features include the ability to still use web-based extensions while in offline mode, browsing local HTML files offline, and tab-specific offline settings. It also supports navigator.onLine, 'online' and 'offline' events, and respects global offline and online browser level events.

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Extension stats

By: emano.waldeck

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Users: 8,000+

Rating: 3.33 (24)

Version: 0.2.1 (Last updated: 2021-10-04)

Creation date: 2019-07-21

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
declarativeNetRequest
scripting

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 55.84K

Email: em*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 11681 ▼ 24

Other rankings

#3578 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 9 #1 in works offline keyword 23 #2 in offline keyword 16 #12 in work keyword 13 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Work Offline (Page Only) (v0.1.4)

3.86

(14) 339

Work Offline (v0.2.0)

0.00

(0) 1,649+

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Extension summary

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This extension brings "Work Offline" button to your browser. When the extension is in the offline mode, no web request can be sent or received by web pages. Note that still, your extension can use the internet. So let's say you have a web-based email client and an email notifier extension. The web-based one is disconnected, but the extension one is connected.

Notes:

You can enable and disable the offline mode right from the toolbar button. This is a toggle button.
If you have open tabs, those tabs cannot send and receive network requests in the offline mode
You can still browse local HTML files while you are in the offline mode, though these pages cannot anything to any web servers

Change Log: version 0.1.2

Offline mode per tab. You can now use the right-click context menu item for page action to make a single tab or multiple tabs go to the offline mode. It is still possible to use the toolbar button to make all tabs work in offline mode too. version 0.1.3
supports navigator.onLine
supports "online" and "offline" events
respects global offline and online browser level events

User reviews

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Pros

Useful for debugging with PWA development
Can block AJAX calls to some extent
Works for some users without issues

Cons

Doesn't work for many users
Breaks browser history
Fails to load local content
Doesn't work with websockets
Missing toggle button for some users

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Basically useless for development
Useful for debugging
Cannot block websocket
Needs improvements for AJAX reliability

Recent reviews

Thanks! Very useful tool. It would be even better if you add an option to disable that confirmation message that says: "Are you sure you want to switch to online mode for this tab?" and another option to create a keyboard shortcut to toggle offline mode for a tab.

Idriss BENABBES, 2024-11-18

doesn't even work

Kitty Cute, 2024-07-26

Breaks browser history! "Offline mode" instead of every closed tab name! Please rename to "(offline mode) ${TAB_NAME}" to preserve history (Ctrl-H) search!