#2: Using proxies with Firefox

Especially for ILoveTeens.

I still don't understand why you want to use a proxy, but anyway:

I downloaded Firefox and had a look. It is actually better than I expected it. I found the option page for proxies:

Select Tools from the menu, then Options ...

Go to the General tab and select Connection settings ...

Usually what you want to do is "Manual proxy configuration" and "Use the same proxy for all protocols".

You can then enter hostname and port of the proxy you want to use.

For those who use Internet Explorer:
I only have the German version so I cannot show any screenshots, but there is a menu tab Extras, select Internet options, Connection settings, LAN settings. Then you have something very similar to the dialog of Firefox.

Alex.. thank you very very much.. I though I was right but through you showing me I have it now.. well I have 1000 reasons to use proxy's but the most or biggest reason is security.. thank you alax or Donka-Schein

Same here. i did it for protection of my computer. I am agraphic designer and have HUGE files and most haven't been backed up. SO I can't really afford to have my system fail on me:(

My router helps out a great deal. All ports are stealthed except for Ident, which I re-routed. When I go to Sheilds-up it says I am completely protected. However, when I went to www.iprive.com, they were able to tell me my private IP, where I was, etc. So I joined thier proxy to avoid having that info spread to spyware ad-agencies.

What browser do you use Alex, just out of curiosity?

Wait a second. What exactly is the difference between specifying a proxy in LAN settings of IE and/or Firefox, versus logging onto the Proxy and surfing from there?

That's what I do at IPRIVE. I am litterally attached to thier proxy and browsing from thier interface.

I personally use IE with Javascript and ActiveX set to 'prompt'. So it asks me whether to execute Javascript or not everytime I download a page.

Sometimes it is anoying but it's the only way to deactivate it on 'questionable' sites and to activate it on sites I trust and need.

Unfortunately I found out that Firefox sets Javascript to either ON or OFF. Their is no 'prompt every time'.

And if you that the proxy in LAN settings your browser sends all your requests to the proxy and the proxy will load the site and send it back to you.

With iprive you start at a page from iprive. You enter the URL and send a request to iprive servers. The servers will load the page, REWRITE every URL it sees with a key which points to iprive servers and contains the original URL.

For example http://www.funsforum.com may become http://www.iprive.com/request?url=http://www.funsforum.com .

If you click the link, your browser will connect to iprive and they will load the page.

If you ever click a link which is not rewritten, your browser will not use the proxy.

INteresting. Well here's what the URL looks like

It's using a secure Http.

https://www.iprive.com/m/nph-is.cgi/0100110A/687474703a2f2f7777772e66756e73666f72756d2e636f6d2f76696577746f7069632e7068703f743d323234

Well, it seems to work for me ok

i see

Ehrm ... im surely not a specializzzzt, but isn´t the best choice of the Proxy Server dependend of your own location??