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Localhost Automate

by Tal Koren · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Converts file URLs to http://localhost for developer testing purposes

Users
786
+16 in 30 days
Rating
4.2 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
11
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#35K
#30K among extensions
Version
1.2
updated 16 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
1005501,000Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 786 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
3812Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 11 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Localhost Automate

As a developer working locally before pushing to the web, there's one thing that always eats a few seconds of the workflow: Chrome opens local files under file:// instead of http://, so you end up clicking the address bar just to switch it to localhost yourself. Localhost Automate does that switch for you. Point it at your local projects folder (like d:\wwwroot) and it'll automatically redirect any file you open under there to its localhost address instead, so opening d:\wwwroot\Some_Project loads as http://localhost/Some_Project right away. If your projects live in more than one folder, or run on different ports, you can set up multiple folder-to-address mappings instead of just one. Comments, bug reports and suggestions are always welcome. Enjoy!

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−7−0.9%00.00
30 days+16+2.1%00.00
6 months+188+31.4%00.00
1 year+24+3.1%−1+0.01

Version history

2 versions recorded
1.216 Jul 2026
1.127 Apr 2018

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
27 Apr 2018
Size
50 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
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Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 2
Permissions
storage

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