Compare Chrome extensions: Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 New Tab vs LiveHosts

Stats Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 New Tab Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 New Tab LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 352 10,000+
Average rating 5.00 3.47
Rating count 4 36
Last updated 2019-11-18 2022-03-29
Size 1.16M 59.17K
Version 12.0.4 2.0.0
Short description
Replace your new tab with the Plants Vs. Zombies Custom page, with bookmarks,apps, games and Game pride wallpaper Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 New Tab extension by LovelyTab. Install it for the greatest browsing experience. Open interesting news, facts and play games for free while enjoying your favorite HD Theme and Wallpapers.

HOW TO USE:

  • This Plants Vs. Zombies HD Wallpaper Chrome Theme is so simple and just by clicking on Add to chrome – it will be added automatically.
  • In the upper left corner, click on settings to customize all options according to your needs.
  • Enjoy best wallpapers and free widgets while browsing

FEATURES:

  • Local Time Option – changes no matter where you are
  • The weather will match your current destination as well
  • Bookmark favorite websites with just one click with our new Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 4K Background New Tab extension.
  • Play games for free by clicking at the joystick in the upper left corner
  • Read related news and interesting facts - Plants Vs. Zombies HD Wallpaper Theme allows you to customize and add/remove these options
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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:

  • 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