Compare Chrome extensions: Gta San Andreas Wallpapers and New Tab vs LiveHosts

Stats Gta San Andreas Wallpapers and New Tab Gta San Andreas Wallpapers and New Tab LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 727 10,000+
Average rating 0.00 3.47
Rating count 0 36
Last updated 2021-04-21 2022-03-29
Size 233.47K 59.17K
Version 0.0.1 2.0.0
Short description
Give your Chrome a new look with Gta San Andreas wallpapers. Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Gta San Andreas Wallpapers and New Tab extension brings a fresh look to your default Chrome New Tab page. With every Chrome browser or new tab launch, you will enjoy the Gta San Andreas wallpapers.

All features:

Random wallpapers: Get a random wallpaper for your browser's new tab page.

One fixed wallpaper: You may want a fixed wallpaper you always want to see, then just click on an image listed in the backgrounds section. You can revert this in the settings section.

Search box: Search the entire web within the extension.

Quick Links: Quickly access to the most popular social media websites.

Popular Games: Play handpicked HTML5 games listed in the Popular Games section.

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:

  • depending on the server, parts of a web page referring to the site URL (like href and src attributes) could be different from the original
  • window.location has a different value that can potentially throw off JavaScript snippets
  • most Cross-Origin request won't work