Chrome-Stats extension
Compare Chrome extensions: Snowman Wallpaper vs LiveHosts
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Snowman Wallpaper
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LiveHosts
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| User count | 74 | 10,000+ |
| Average rating | 5.00 | 3.47 |
| Rating count | 11 | 36 |
| Last updated | 2021-08-03 | 2022-03-29 |
| Size | 10.08M | 59.17K |
| Version | 1.30.24.17 | 2.0.0 |
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| Snowman Wallpaper change new tab to custom HD Snowman background for Free. Custom cute Snowman wallpaper background themes for fans. | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
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This extension features some of the cute Snowman background to make you feel good on your Chrome browser for FREE. The extension shuffle Snowman wallpaper every time you open a new tab. Turn your Chrome new tab into beautiful and powerful utility browser with Snowman Wallpaper extension. Snowman background theme for chromebook, laptop, desktop or pc. Extension Features:
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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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