Saturday, May 16, 2009

Google Chrome Proxy Server Setup

Google Chrome uses IE's Proxy settings... However, you can force it to be something different using the "--proxy-server=XXXXX" switch. Or, just use "--proxy-server=" to use no proxy.

This is really nice, because now I can set up two Google Chrome shortcuts - One to fire up Chrome at work and use the proxy, and the other with the "--proxy-server=" switch so I can use Chrome at home!

I like that better than going into the settings of FireFox each time I start it up (I haven't found a proxy plugin that works well yet...). Maybe FireFox has a similar switch?

1 comment:

Adam said...

FoxyProxy is an amazing proxy plugin for Firefox. Its the reason I have not switched to Chrome yet.