Review by Firefox user 15455436
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 15455436, 5 years agoThis addon would be useful if it wasn't for the fact that as soon as I switch window to copy the IP or hostname of a server, the addon closes, thus clearing the values I entered. Essentially, you are not going to be able to copy and paste both the IP and hostname in to the plugin, you will have to type one. This is pretty poor design but something which can probably be fixed easily. I hope they fix it so I can actually use this. Until then, I will be uninstalling.
33 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alex_4X, 4 months agoNot work.
I try to use like a block noisy web pages.
like examle.com 0.0.0.0 - Rated 2 out of 5by weilinfox, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12995607, a year agoThe extension rewrites the URL to http://«ip»/«hostname»/, and I assume some internal magic to remove the hostname from the path again and to set the correct Host: header.
The problem with this approach is that it breaks some sites; href="/foo", src="/assets/bla.css" removes the /hostname part from the URL, causing these kind of links to break.
I would be interested in a version of this that does not rewrite the URL, but I can imagine that will be hard to do within Firefox' extension API. - Rated 1 out of 5by elgarfo, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by eathtespagheti, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17513812, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16610910, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15090565, 3 years agoHelped me when a website's DNS round robin was broken
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikolay Iglev, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Olivier BOËL, 3 years agoVery useful! Congrats & thanks!
Would be nice to have the option to avoid changing the URL in the browser as some SPA rely on it. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12603543, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 레몬라임, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tsvyatko, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14331125, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ilya, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arash, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by David, 4 years agoThe extension seems to just rewrite the URL to replace the domain name with an IP address before making a request. When I add a rule to point www.example.com at 127.0.0.1, and type https://www.example.com in the address bar, the browser just goes to https://127.0.0.1, instead of what I'd expect it to do which was direct the browser to connect to 127.0.0.1 but keep the Host header as www.example.com. It might be useful for people testing non-HTTPS sites without a virtual hosting configuration, but I'm not in that situation so this extension doesn't help with my needs at all.
- Rated 2 out of 5by henrique.abreu, 5 years agoPop-up to add new rules is really crappy, closes all the time, does not have a way to update in bulk... and tweaking more settings is required to make it work.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15832586, 5 years agoDoesn't set the Host header, but otherwise it works.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15822544, 5 years agoThis satisfies my immediate need - bypassing flaky DNS on my intranet VPN - pretty well! Enter hostname, enter IP, click "Add", click "Save".
There is still some room for improvement. Like many other reviewers I initially got tripped up by the form's habit of clearing itself, meaning that one field must be manually typed. And by the Save button, which must be clicked quite promptly or the data will disappear again. Both of these can be addressed with practice, though.
My one other issue is its URL rewriting rule - it looks fairly nice as e.g. "http://127.0.0.1/www.example.com/", but Firefox can't understand that entry format, so if you edit the URL at all (or even just hit enter on it) Firefox will no longer know what you mean and it will garble the URL.
That said, this extension is already quite helpful and it shows good potential too! - Rated 5 out of 5by nyanpasu64's old account, 5 years agoOnly works if network.trr.mode is set to 0. Fails if DNS over HTTPS is enabled.