Mozilla firefox add-on to redirect url from one domain name to another domain without changing the complete url

Question

I want to know is there any add-on to redirect url in mozilla firefox. In Google Chrome there is an add-on Switcheroo. I need the url switcher like this in mozilla firefox. I have already tried with redirect url add-on of mozilla. But its not redirecting correctly.

Requirements:

I need to test the localhost portal pages. But in few places the dev environment url is hard coded. I want to redirect those urls to localhost to test the changes which I made in local.

Eg redirection:

protocol://dev_hostname:dev_portnubmer/wps/portal/abcd/xyz/u!/abcd

should be redirected to

protocol://localhost:localhostPortnumber/wps/portal/abcd/xyz/u!/abcd

For this redirection in google chrome switcheroo add-on I have configured like this:-http://dev_hostname:dev_portnubmer ---> http://localhost:localhostPortnumber. The add-on changing the protocol, domain name, port number. It's not changing the rest of the url part. Its working well as I expected. But in Mozilla I need an add-on like this.

Answer 1

You can use the Requestly extension which is available for both Chrome and Firefox. It has a feature to replace parts of URL which matches a given text or pattern instead of redirecting to a different URL altogether, basically what Switcheroo does. It has other features as well.

For your particular use case, you can follow these steps -

1. Install Requestly
2. Click on r icon in address bar
3. Click on (+) Green Icon to create a new Rule
4. Select Replace Rule
5. Replace dev_hostname:dev_portnubmer with localhost:localhostPortnumber
6. Save

Test your app now.

Answer 2

There is a add-on available for mozilla to redirect url which is Redirector.

I have read the help provided by the Redirector add-on, there they have explained the usage of it clearly.