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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By: emano.waldeck

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.43 (21)

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

Creation date: 2019-07-21

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
declarativeNetRequest
scripting

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 55.84K

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

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 9218 ▼ 115

Other rankings

#10584 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 12 #1 in works offline keyword 17 #2 in offline keyword 19 #30 in work keyword 24 ▼ 2 #293 in receive keyword 31 ▲ 7

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Work Offline (v0.2.0)

5.00 (1) 2,924+

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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

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Useful for debugging with progressive web app (PWA) development
Works like a charm for some users
Useful for blocking AJAX calls

Cons

Unreliable, does not work 100% of the time
Does not work with websockets
No toggle button after installation for some users
Cannot load local files even in offline mode
Does not reload tabs automatically after switching back online

Most mentioned

Issues with AJAX calls
Problems with websockets functionality
Extension does not reliably trigger 'offline' and 'online' events
No automatic reload of tabs after going back online
Some users find it completely non-functional

Recent reviews

Thanks. I Like it so much. It's work like a charm

Joni Pranata, 2024-03-04

Basically useless for development. It won't load anything even if it's local. Closing the browser would be a good replacement for the functionality this extension offers since you can't do anything once you enable it.

Ze webdev, 2023-05-19

It was quite useful for debugging with pwa development, but now its not showing the page when offline mode is activated

Julian, 2022-04-01

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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.