Re: Switching the proxy from the browser ?

Micha <[email protected]> writes:

> With FoxyProxy, i see by the color of the icon in the right lower corner 
> what's up: 
> - Completely diabled (=browser default = direct connection), 
> - Using wwwoffle for all URLs, or 
> - Use Proxies based on the fork filters. 
> 
> To switch i need one right click and one left click i think that's acceptable.
> 
> > would be so much more useful.  At the moment you need to go through
> > 2 dialog boxes and actually type in the hostname not to be proxied.
> 
> I'm not sure if i understand you here. I'm using linux FP 2.2.1 perhaps 
> we're not running the same version ? Did you try checking 'Global settings ->
> Show status in status bar' ?

I am running the same version of FoxyProxy as you are and I do have
the status bar icon.  Consider an example where you are browsing a
website using WWWOFFLE and you discover that there is some feature
that you really need that doesn't work well with WWWOFFLE (Javascript,
cookies, flash whatever).  Starting from viewing the web page that
causes the problem the steps that you need to add this host to the
list that are not cached is:

1. Left click the FoxyProxy status bar icon
2. Double click the "Direct" entry in the proxy list
3. Click "Add new pattern"
4. Type in the name of the host
5. Click OK
6. Click OK again
7. Select File -> Close

Compare this to deciding to allowing the site to use Javascript with
the NoScript extension:

1. Left click the NoScript status bar icon
2. Select "Allow foo.com" from the menu

Or compare to deciding to allow cookies from the site with the
CookieStatusButton extension:

1. Left click the CookieStatusButton status bar icon
2. Select "Accept cookies from foo.com" from the menu


It should be possible for FoxyProxy to have a two step process like
these other extensions that simply allows you to enable or disable
proxying for the current web site.

-- 
Andrew.
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