Easily switches a website between development and production webservers

Latest Version

Version
0.3
Update
June 15, 2013
Size
61.7KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
3.64706 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (UK)
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Server Switcher for Google Chrome™ Extension

Server Switcher allows you to switch between pages on a production website and a development version with a single click. If you develop websites and frequently find yourself wanting to switch to the development/production version of the page you're on, this addon is for you.

It is a port of the excellent Server Switcher addon for Firefox, which I had used for a long time before switching to Chrome. The Firefox addon can be found at http://hermann.czedik.net/projekte/switcher/

Note about multiple servers - I've had a number of requests in the reviews and bad reviews because I only support two servers per profile. I have no plans to change this - my extension is for a quick switch between live/dev. Adding more servers requires either a dropdown (2 clicks) or multiple icons, neither of which are not what I intended. If you need support for multiple servers per profile, I suggest you try multiswitch, rather than leaving a bad review saying that my extension doesn't do what it's not intended to do!

Source code for the extension can be found at https://github.com/richardlawley/server-switcher

Revision History
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0.3: Updated to Manifest version 3
0.2: Allowed single hostnames in URL, such as http://localhost/ and http://development/
0.1: Initial Version
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx","manifest_version": 2,"name": "Server Switcher for Google Chrome\u2122","description": "Easily switches a website between development and production webservers","version": "0.3","icons": {"48": "icon_48.png","128": "icon_128.png"},"background": {"scripts": [ "eventPage.js" ],"persistent": false},"options_page": "options.html","page_action" : {"default_title" : "Server Switcher for Google Chrome\u2122"},"permissions": ["tabs"]}
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User reviews

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Mauricio Sánchez (ID: 00000018b1fd542c) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 03/19/2014 Great idea, but useless since it only allows two domains in every profile.

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Andrei Balandin (ID: 000000c1ceaebaa1) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 06/07/2013 1. limited to only two URLs 2. doesn't work with URLs where the domain name contains numbers

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Pat Diven II (ID: 000000ecff3a72c8) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 05/12/2013 Thanks, Richard! I was in the same boat as you. I hope you'll give this extension a nice little update soon considering it's been a couple years. :)

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Corey Martella (ID: 0000000c9e3ba9fe) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 03/09/2013 please add arbitary amounts of servers, i have production, smoke, staging and dev and would like to be able to switch from any one to any other one easily like multi-switch is supposed todo but not working anymore

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Simon Bérubé (ID: 000000141b6bcc94) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/04/2012 Excellent extension. Thank you! On the note of localhost and similar addresses, those reviews were made a long time ago and this extension does work with addresses like that.