Merlin
LiveHosts

LiveHosts

Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file

Total ratings for LiveHosts
3.44 (Rating count: 32)
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Pros
  • Useful for bypassing flaky DNS and testing
  • Can be convenient for redirecting traffic to a specific IP address
  • Helps in server migration and testing before DNS update
Cons
  • URL rewriting breaks links on some sites
  • Does not properly set the 'Host' header for HTTP requests
  • Add-on interface closes when switching windows making it hard to copy/paste values
  • Incompatibility with HTTPS and DNS over HTTPS
Most mentioned
  • URL rewriting
  • Issues with setting Host header correctly
  • User interface issues
  • Breaks site functionality
  • Not working with HTTPS and DNS over HTTPS
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Recent reviews for LiveHosts
Recent rating average: 3.60
All time rating average: 3.44
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-01-17 weilinfox
2023-07-10 Firefox user 12995607 The 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.
2023-06-27 winchip good stuff
2023-02-27 elgarfo
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2022-08-30 eathtespagheti
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2022-05-27 Firefox user 16610910
2022-05-26 Firefox user 15090565 Helped me when a website's DNS round robin was broken
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