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Tahaan / proxymanager

Tool to enable or disable the configured proxy server for a wide range of programs
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Manage Mozilla Firefox proxy settings #1

Open Tahaan opened 10 years ago

Tahaan commented 10 years ago

Create a module to manage the proxy setting for Mozilla Firefox along with other programs.

Tahaan commented 10 years ago

I can not (yet) find a way to change settings for a running Firefox instance externally.

The (unacceptable) workaround is to 1) Kill Firefox (Note: Firefox can, and often does, overwrite prefs.js when it is closed) 2) Change the setting via prefs.js 3) Re-start Firefox

The method I currently use is to not manage Firefox settings via ProxyManager. The QuickProxy FireFox add-on provides a toggle button which allows the user to enable/disable proxy use with a single click, which is less intrusive than the alternative.

It may be possible to use a special MIME tipe/URL or to use a special "ProxyManager" Firefox Addon to provide the needed interface to control Firefox proxy settings.

Tahaan commented 10 years ago

Information about Mozilla Firefox options added to the GitHub Wiki here: https://github.com/Tahaan/proxymanager/wiki/No-module-for-Firefox

Tahaan commented 10 years ago

Sadly unless a method is made available by Firefox this issue can not be solved beyond the work-around options mentioned at https://github.com/Tahaan/proxymanager/wiki/No-module-for-Firefox