Compare Chrome extensions: Cuphead Wallpapers HD Theme vs LiveHosts

Stats Cuphead Wallpapers HD Theme Cuphead Wallpapers HD Theme LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 14 10,000+
Average rating 5.00 3.47
Rating count 1 36
Last updated 2019-06-29 2022-03-29
Size 6.01M 59.17K
Version 1.0 2.0.0
Short description
Install this Cuphead theme and enjoy each new tab in the cool Cuphead wallpaper! Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Meet our new Cuphead Wallpapers for New Tab extension for all the Game lovers! We paid a lot of attention to the details to make your browsing process more comfortable. Bring more colors to your day with these Cuphead Background Wallpapers. This product was carefully made by fans and specifically for the Game fans. We have collected the best of Cuphead Wallpapers HD and put them into this extension so that you can replace the wallpaper of your new tab with your favorite ones. Just install absolutely for FREE and have some fun while browsing! Short list of features provided by this product is given below. List of Features:

  • High-definition wallpaper & backgrounds ;
  • Local time;
  • Comfortable and quick access to the most viewed websites;
  • Option of quick access to useful application like Gmail , Youtube , Facebook etc
  • Animation of snow is available!

Step-by-step Cuphead HD Wallpapers Chrome Theme installation:

  • The first step is to find and click on install bottom at the right upper corner. It might take some time, so please, be patient and wait when the first load is done.
  • Second step is customizing of your Chrome New Tab in accordance to your personal needs. It`s not a complicated process, just find the “Options” button in the left upper corner and choose “Settings” tab.
  • Done! Now enjoy your awesome New Tab HD with wallpapers and useful features.

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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