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.
Stats
By: emano.waldeck
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 3.43
(23)
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
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Summary
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
Cons
- Does not work 100% of the time
- Does not work with websockets
- Does not automatically reload tabs when switching back to online
Most mentioned
- Does not work reliably
- Does not block websockets
- Does not automatically reload tabs
Recent reviews
doesn't even work
by
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!
by
Dmitry Komarov, 2024-06-13
Fantastic
by
iman beikmohammadi, 2024-05-27
Safety
Risk impact
Work Offline may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
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