Limit Chrome's bandwidth

Question

For web development purposes, I want to be able to throttle the bandwidth Chrome uses, especially for localhost connections.

I know that the add-on "Firefox Throttle" does that in Firefox; is there a way to do the same thing in Chrome, with the web development tools or an extension?

Answer 1

You can't 'throttle' localhost (127.0.0.1) connections. That's just never going to happen. Since what you need is to test a web application in a pre-production environment, you have to find some sort of network environment emulator/simulator.

One of the companies I once worked for used Shunra vCat exactly for such testing purposes, among others. You might find a free alternative or two if you'd look around, but I'm not sure.

Answer 2

Under Mac OS X you can use ipfw.

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 15KByte/s
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80
# delete the port
sudo ipfw delete 1

My Source: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080119112509736