Compare Chrome extensions: Awesome Anime wallpaper new tab vs LiveHosts
Stats | Awesome Anime wallpaper new tab | LiveHosts |
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User count | 218 | 10,000+ |
Average rating | 4.00 | 3.47 |
Rating count | 1 | 36 |
Last updated | 2019-04-19 | 2022-03-29 |
Size | 50.93K | 59.17K |
Version | 2.0 | 2.0.0 |
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Make your own Awesome Anime new tab experience. | Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file |
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Install my Awesome Anime wallpaper new tab and enjoy varied HD wallpapers of this, everytime you open a new tab. Features: simple to view and simple to set as wallpaper. New images and wallpapers are added seamlessly. Pick your favorite wallpaper and you'll get a brand new browser new tab you'll love. Awesome Anime wallpaper new tab are waiting for you. Make your own new tab experience, with lots of handy add on. Get the date and time instantly using our digital clock widget. High quality wallpapers. Our intention is to bring amazing Awesome Anime wallpaper new tab to people all around the world. Bring your chrome tab new tab to life delivered personally by our team to you. Each themes is a real masterpiece picked - just set up it to see more! |
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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