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Compare Chrome extensions: LightBolt VPN vs LiveHosts
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LightBolt VPN
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LiveHosts
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| User count | 2,614+ | 10,000+ |
| Average rating | 3.60 | 3.47 |
| Rating count | 15 | 36 |
| Last updated | 2019-02-10 | 2022-03-29 |
| Size | 68.15K | 59.17K |
| Version | 1.2.3 | 2.0.0 |
| Short description | |
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| Visit blocked sites and enjoy a secure web experience from your browser new tab with Lightbolt VPN. | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
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LightBoltVPN is a New Tab extension that allows you to use a VPN service from your browser. This extension also offers a direct and convenient web search. With one click, you become anonymous, access your favorite content online, perform secure purchases, and surf freely from wherever you are. How it works: To use LightBoltVPN, after installation, open a New Tab then you just need to activate the VPN server by selecting a country of your choice and clicking Connect. After this simple step you will enjoy: ✓ Secured streaming services ✓ Protect your life online from malicious content and tracking ✓ Online shopping without worrying about your financial data. Please, note that LightBoltVPN offers a trial version of a VPN service provider. To have access to full online protection, we recommend you to upgrade your account. Some important information for you: |
LiveHosts is a Chrome extension that aims at providing a working (even if sub-obtimal) solution to a common nuisance that many web developers have to deal with every day. If you have multiple versions of your websites sharing the same host names on multiple environments, you often need to switch the assignments in your OS hosts file. Other extensions (like the life-saving HostAdmin) can help with the cumbersomeness, but changes to the hosts file usually take an inconvenient amount of time to actually affect the browser. Unfortunately, there is no way to make Chrome direct requests for a hostname to a specific IP without a standard redirect - you could set up a smart HTTP proxy, but it's often not possible or not convenient. This extension settles for a sub-obtimal approach: requests to the indicated hostnames are redirected to the chosen IPs with an additional Host header. The browser's address bar reflects this behaviour showing the hostname right after the IP (e.g. http://127.0.0.1/www.example.com/). The extension also tries to take care of all requests to either the IP or the hostname in a consistent way. Issues After the redirect, the user is effectively in a different domain that the one they expected. They may notice some functional differences:
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