Ask HN: Browser extension for limiting bandwidth (feature request)

2 pointsby whyohil y a 11 ans3 comments

I'm looking for a browser extension (ideally for Firefox, but Chrome could work too) that would limit the bandwidth to a user defined value. Especially for uploads, so that I could upload a file in the browser at, say, 50kB/s.

There's an old Firefox extension called "Firefox Throttle" that does this, but it only works with Firefox 3.6 (which is obsolete and doesn't work with many new sites).

I'm not a programmer, so excuse my ignorance, but in case something like this is easy to make, I'd be grateful and I know a few other people would appreciate it as well. I don't need a GUI, a setting in about:config would work just fine.

(Oh and I know there are some other solutions, but it needs to be a browser extension.)

3 comments

bodelectail y a 11 ans

What's wrong with using the chrome dev tools? i.e. https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/device-mode#netwo...

whyohil y a 11 ans

Apparently it doesn't actually limit uploads: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=414319

Also, I'd prefer to use my own custom speed value and no extra latency etc.

lpszil y a 11 ans

If you're on Mac, check out an Apple utility called Network Link Conditioner.