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by bonestamp2 692 days ago
My favorite is the one that disables CORS... makes it easy to write local clients/tools that can get data from anywhere:

--disable-web-security

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I also found this extension to be useful and more configurable: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/allow-cors-access-c...
do you or anyone else happen to know an extension that allows getUserMedia to work without https? i just need a photo from a webcam (a la <input file capture> that opens a camera on a smartphone) for a local network webapp. configuring https just for this is fickle.
it should work over http in the special case of localhost. try port forwarding localhost:80 to the webapp.
Love it! Thank you.
Weren't we able to have custom frontends for facebook at some time?