Saving your time when you switch domain-ip mapping (Hosts file) between different environment. Awesome host file editor !

Latest Version

Version
1.4.8
Update
August 17, 2013
Size
181KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
3.88679 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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HostAdmin Extension

HostAdmin Chrome port

Saving your time when you switch domain-ip mapping between different environment

Firefox Version
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hostadmin/

Introduction
HostAdmin is a Firefox Addon , that helps you modify the Hosts file , switch domain-ip mapping. HostAdmin can understand your Hosts file via a enhanced Hosts file syntax.

In additional, HostAdmin refresh your DNS cache automaticlly whenever you change your Hosts file, even manually.

How does HostAdmin analyze the Hosts file
Common
IP DOMAIN [#COMMENT]

127.0.0.1 localhost #comment here

when comment is 'hide' (case-insensitive), that line would not display in menu.

Grouping

#==== Project 1
#127.0.0.1 localhost1
127.0.0.1 localhost2
127.0.0.1 localhost3
#====

#==== Project 2
#127.0.0.1 localhost1
#127.0.0.1 localhost2
#127.0.0.1 localhost3
#====


Syntax detail
http://code.google.com/p/fire-hostadmin/wiki/HOST_SYNTAX

Switching Hosts using HostAdmin
By using HostAdmin to switch Hosts, the Hosts need to be written access.
XP users need NO additional setting
Here is a guide for you to gain write privilege for Vista/7/Linux users
http://code.google.com/p/fire-hostadmin/wiki/GAIN_HOSTS_WRITE_PERM

Switch Hosts Manually
The Hosts might be switched manually
If they do so
HostAdmin will refresh DNS immediately

Feedback
http://code.google.com/p/fire-hostadmin/issues/list
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",\t"name": "HostAdmin",\t\t"icons": {\t\t\t"16" : "icons/icon16.png",\t\t\t"24" : "icons/icon24.png",\t\t\t"32" : "icons/icon32.png",\t\t\t"128": "icons/icon128.png"\t\t},\t\t"version": "1.4.8",\t\t"manifest_version": 2,\t\t"permissions": ["tabs", "browsingData"],\t\t"description": "Saving your time when you switch domain-ip mapping (Hosts file) between different environment. Awesome host file editor !",\t\t"background": {\t\t\t"persistent": true, \t\t\t"page": "container/chrome/background.html"\t\t},\t\t\t\t"plugins": [{"path": "npapi/hostadmin.x86.so"}, {"path": "npapi/hostadmin.amd64.so"}, {"path": "npapi/hostadmin.dll"},{"path": "npapi/hostadmin.plugin"}],\t\t"browser_action": {\t\t\t"default_icon": "icons/icon128.png",\t\t\t\t"default_popup": "core/popup.html"\t\t}}
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User reviews

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Grégory Becker (ID: 00000017beb32ac5) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 03/31/2022 Not working anymore

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Jackxwb Jackxwb (ID: 00000071bf79f559) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 03/04/2022 它不能工作,点击Save按钮时,控制台console出现了报错 chrome-extension://o…_file_wrapper.js:25 Uncaught TypeError: helper.set is not a function

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Betty Wong (ID: 000000a3969fccea) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 11/18/2016 为什么读取不到本地的host文件呢?

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Young Yun (ID: 000000a8415af5a3) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/16/2014 very good

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Jonathan Cors (ID: 000000f9e73f343d) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 05/26/2014 No funciona en chrome 35 ubuntu.