Tag: Google Chrome

Chrome Extensions I use (start 2018 edition)

This is the updated, early 2018 snapshot of the list of Chrome extensions and apps I use.

Favourites/recommendations are in bold.
My own extensions/apps are marked with an asterisk (*).
Extensions by Google are marked with a (G)

The previous list, from late 2015, is here.

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Quick-tip: Moving multiple tabs to a new window in Chrome

Just discovered this by trial (requires tabs to be consecutively located):

  • Open the first tab (click to it)
  • Press shift and mouse-down on last tab to move
  • Drag out of the current window and release mouse

Voila!

All the selected tabs in the range are moved into a new Window.

Offline Testing In Chrome

Offline - No Wifi
Offline testing in Chrome – No more WiFi toggling

Despite ever expanding web of internet connectivity, no modern web app can expect not to work decently when offline.

Testing offline functionality, though, can be a bit of a bummer for people like me who develop almost exclusively in/for Google Chrome – unlike the old Internet Explorer, it doesn’t have a quick to access ‘Offline Mode’.

Not being a professional developer, I didn’t have extensive tools at my service to test my app in offline mode, and switching WiFi off-on was becoming tiresome. This is the solution I’ve ended up with for offline testing in Chrome:

  1. Install the Proxy SwitchySharp extension from Chrome Web Store.

  2. In extension’s settings, set up a proxy to a non-existent IP Address, preferably on our local network. We could even set it to localhost/127.0.0.1 if we aren’t running a server on local machine.

Proxy Switchy Sharp Settings
Proxy SwitchySharp Extension Settings
  1. Now every time we need to switch to offline mode, all we have to do is go to the extension’s browser button, and select the local-profile we created.
Browser Button - Select Proxy
Browser Button – Select proxy to go offline.
  1. When we want to go back on-line, we just select ‘Direct Connection’ or, if we have a corporate proxy, then that.

That’s it! No more toggling WiFi to test offline mode for our web apps.