Compare Chrome extensions: Akali Mask Neon LOL New Tab Wallpaper HD vs LiveHosts

Stats Akali Mask Neon LOL New Tab Wallpaper HD Akali Mask Neon LOL New Tab Wallpaper HD LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 1,436+ 10,000+
Average rating 4.97 3.47
Rating count 32 36
Last updated 2020-09-07 2022-03-29
Size 862.21K 59.17K
Version 12.0.7 2.0.0
Short description
Replace your new tab with the Akali LOL Custom page, with bookmarks, apps, games and League of Legends pride wallpaper. Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

New Tab with Akali Neon LOL wallpapers! Great images of Akali LoL Champion for your custom browser!

New Tab Akali LoL Background Custom NEW TAB extension overtakes your regular New Tab. New Tab extension with Fan material of Akali Neon LoL HD Wallpapers.

FEATURES:

  • With every new tab, you will have great wallpapers of Akali League of Legends
  • Below the search bar, we have affiliate links with great offers
  • Click on the Settings button to turn ON/OFF Weather and Time option
  • Click on Backgrounds to save your favorite background and set it as default
  • There is a shortcut to change the wallpapers on the lower left side
  • You may also change the wallpaper if you just refresh the page. If you want to change your saved default wallpaper - just unheart it and it will be back to random
  • Play games by pressing the joystick icon in the upper left side
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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