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Web Developer by chrispederick

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Review by John Lightsey
by John Lightsey, 8 years ago
I've used and recommended this addon for many years. Unfortunately the new 2.0 version of the Web Developer addon has lost all of the functionality that made it relevant for me:

- quick access to the proxy settings
- control over the browser cache
- ability to disable javascript entirely
- controls for changing the useragent

I'm guessing it's just not possible to support that sort of functionality inside the new webextension addon framework. Hopefully some other tool that fills these needs will become available.

Thanks for all your efforts over the years building this excellent tool.

Developer response

posted 8 years ago
Yup, adjusting proxy settings and disabling JavaScript are not possible with a WebExtension which is why those features had to be removed. There is the possibility that I may be able to add some basic cache features back in a future release, but they will be probably be somewhat limited given the lack of APIs I now have available.

Controlling the user agent was actually part of my other extension User Agent Switcher which I do hope to update as a WebExtension. However, this requires rewriting it entirely from scratch so I am not sure when I will have the time to do that honestly.
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