Switchy doesn't recognise MATE, the Gnome2 fork

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Switchy
2. Attempt to use a configured proxy.
3. Doesn't work, log shows:

Plugin error: Your Linux distribution isn't supported yet. Currently only Gnome 
and KDE based distributions are supported

What is the expected output?

Proxy used. MATE is a fork of Gnome2 so should work the same. 
www.mate-desktop.org

What do you see instead?

Site loads direct, error message in menu.

Operating system:
Linux

Error Log:
[16:39:11] [info] - Extension Info: v1.6.3
[16:39:11] [info] - Browser Info: 5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 
(KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/17.0.963.79 Chrome/17.0.963.79 
Safari/535.11
[17:08:17] [error] - Plugin error: Your Linux distribution isn't supported yet. 
Currently only Gnome and KDE based distributions are supported.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sup...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2012 at 3:17

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Is there a workaround for this?

Original comment by zubin.g...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2012 at 3:28

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Answering my own question, but you can use this alternative:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchysharp/dpplabbmogkhghncfbf
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Original comment by zubin.g...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2012 at 3:41