Compare Chrome extensions: URL Throttler vs ForceCORS

Stats URL Throttler URL Throttler ForceCORS ForceCORS
User count 9,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 4.65 3.81
Rating count 31 16
Last updated 2021-05-06 2014-03-21
Size 39.05K 81.24K
Version 1.2.0 1.1
Short description
An extension that lets you delay the response from specific URLs Allows forcing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers on any desired URL; helpful when accessing remote services from a local host.
Full summary

Chrome Devtools allows you to throttle network speed across all network requests. However, if you want to slow down a specific URL while leaving others at normal speed, you're out of luck. Use this tool to achieve that. Install and specify the URL with a delay in milliseconds. Whenever the browser requests that URL, the response will be delayed by that amount of time. URLs not matching the ones you enter will behave as they normally would.

ForceCORS is a Google Chrome extension which allows you to selectively apply CORS Headers to any web server responses you choose. This is extremely helpful when developing a web application that makes Ajax/XHR requests.

The extension requires you to specify the domains that you wish to monitor and allows you to explicitly define the headers to be added. This is preferable to completely disabling XHR security in your browser, which is a big security hole.

Regarding Permissions In order to allow you to append headers to ANY arbitrary location, this extension requires access to intercept ANY web request. However, by default the extension does NOT monitor any web traffic. Only URLs you specifically whitelist will be read by the extension, and only headers that YOU specify will be appended.

Note: Headers added by this extension will not appear in the DevTools "Network" panel due to a known Chrome bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=258064

This extension is open source under the MIT License and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/chrisdeely/ForceCORS