Description
Provide right-click menu to manually set character encoding for web pages.
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"Work" Keyword
"Will" Keyword
"Start Page" Keyword
"Right Click" Keyword
"Response" Keyword
"Header" Keyword
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Review Summary
Users appreciate that the "Set Character Encoding" extension effectively changes encoding and restores lost functionality in Chrome, aiding viewing of legacy or diverse character sets. However, multiple reviews note significant issues with recent Chrome versions, including failure to work, errors, and problems with newline characters and image display. Some conflicts with other extensions and websites are also reported. Overall, the extension is valued for its core functionality but faces compatibility and stability challenges in current browser environments.
Pros
- Effectively changes character encoding as intended.
- Restores functionality that Chrome removed, useful for viewing legacy or non-UTF-8 encoded pages.
- Simple and convenient to use for encoding changes.
- Works well for various character encodings, including Korean (EUC-KR).
- Has been useful and reliable over many years for some users.
Cons
- Does not work with recent Chrome versions (125 and above) resulting in errors or failures.
- Causes issues with newline characters (\n) being removed or displayed incorrectly, leading to formatting problems.
- Breaks image display for localhost URLs, showing hexadecimal dumps instead of images.
- Conflicts with some websites or other extensions, causing unexpected errors or corrupted page content.
- Context menu errors and JavaScript errors reported, indicating bugs or compatibility problems.
Permissions
This extension can:
- tabs
- scripting
- contextMenus
- storage
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
This extension can access:
- <all_urls>
Additional Information
1.0.1
August 8, 2024
0.15 MB
enja
Developer Information
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