Reviews for IPvFoo
IPvFoo by Paul Marks
Review by Firefox user 13029084
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13029084, 8 years agoBeing very interested in the IPv6 adoption, I like to see if a page is really using IPv6, IPv4, or a mixture.
This extension shows if IPv4 or IPv6 is used just by looking at the extension icon: the big number is for the server on the address bar, the small number(s) showing if components of the page were served by IPv4 and/or IPv6 servers. (Some IPv6 pages are driven by components on IPv4-only servers. For example, my credit union has a dual-stack main page, but all its online banking is IPv4-only.)
Click on the IPvFoo icon, and every server is listed, and whether it is secured, whether it's cached, and (usually) the IP address. It's all presented in a very nice table.
The only shortcoming I have seen so far is if some components are cached from activity on another tab so a server isn't accessed by the current tab, the IP address of that server wont' show; but a "refresh ignoring the cache" (Ctrl+F5) fixes that, at least for the current page. (I hope a future version would resolve the IP address in this situation, but I think it's 5-star-worthy even as it is today.)
Overall, I am very glad to see IPvFoo here for Firefox 57+. I first came across it when I was using Chrome and in Chrome I have absolutely no reservations in recommending IPvFoo!
This extension shows if IPv4 or IPv6 is used just by looking at the extension icon: the big number is for the server on the address bar, the small number(s) showing if components of the page were served by IPv4 and/or IPv6 servers. (Some IPv6 pages are driven by components on IPv4-only servers. For example, my credit union has a dual-stack main page, but all its online banking is IPv4-only.)
Click on the IPvFoo icon, and every server is listed, and whether it is secured, whether it's cached, and (usually) the IP address. It's all presented in a very nice table.
The only shortcoming I have seen so far is if some components are cached from activity on another tab so a server isn't accessed by the current tab, the IP address of that server wont' show; but a "refresh ignoring the cache" (Ctrl+F5) fixes that, at least for the current page. (I hope a future version would resolve the IP address in this situation, but I think it's 5-star-worthy even as it is today.)
Overall, I am very glad to see IPvFoo here for Firefox 57+. I first came across it when I was using Chrome and in Chrome I have absolutely no reservations in recommending IPvFoo!
Developer response
posted 2 years agoI finally fixed the caching problem in v2.11, by keeping recent IP addresses in RAM. This fills in the gaps when Firefox reports a request without an IP address.
40 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17087931, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tux, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tim, a year agoFor those worried about "Access your data for all websites", this is an unavoidable problem with addon permission scopes. Put by the purported (likely?) author on a forum:
> IPvFoo author here. The problem is that there's no way to obtain the (hostname, ip) stream from Chrome/Firefox without requesting the "all websites" permission.
> In theory, browser vendors could define a narrowly-scoped permission that only reports (hostname, ip), or roll this functionality into the browser UI, but neither seems likely to happen.
> I made IPvFoo to promote IPv6 adoption, and wouldn't consider selling it for less than $10M USD. It probably won't ever be worth that much because it's an easily-cloned utility without a "moat", but it's more rational to set a price than refuse to sell under any circumstances.
The addon is open source, and if you insisted, could be built/installed manually. However, I trust it for now from here on AMO.
UPDATE: Thanks for confirming, Paul! - Rated 5 out of 5by Sharky, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 葉稔, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Baptiste, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Caliban, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rodolfo R@mírez..., 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MrHobot, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gomers., 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16855318, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by takeshi0303, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13845156, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16393218, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abdul Rauf, 4 years agoThis should be the recommended extension by firefox. Source code is available at https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo so I think this can be trusted after review
- Rated 5 out of 5by somnitek, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hbermon, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marcone C.A, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 章灵北, 5 years agoThanks!a VERY perfect extension to view whether the website give priority to IPV6.