A solution to the Galeon situation?
George J Karabin
gkarabin at pobox.com
Tue Aug 26 02:07:59 UTC 2003
You may find this to be helpful:
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/proxy-applet
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 11:29, Joel Young wrote:
> --------
> From: George J Karabin <gkarabin at pobox.com>
> > I can't think of any existing browsers or programs that I've used
> > (mozilla, IE) that provide a per-session choice of proxy configuration.
> > Am I off base there?
>
> Galeon use to make it easy to switch. There was a menu choice that
> turned a proxy on and off. Then that choice seemed to stop working,
> then it disappeared. IIRC
>
> > --------
> > > From: George J Karabin <gkarabin at pobox.com>
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:51, Joel Young wrote:
> > > > Sometimes I need to run with two different browsers so I can have one
> > > > without a proxy and the other with one.
> > >
> > > Can you describe a scenario when you'd like to do this? Is it that you
> > > want to only use the proxy for certain host names or netmasks?
> >
> > I have a couple of different web proxies I use. One of them provides a
> > snapshot of the web from 1997 I use for web spidering research. I like
> > to be able to point my browser at that proxy for periods of time to be
> > able to navigate thru that snapshot. I have another proxy which saves
> > any images I encounter. I don't want to use that all the time either.
> > One of the machines has a caching and anonomizing proxy which I might
> > like to use sometimes.
> >
> > I want to be able to navigate my snapshot at the same time as checking
> > my ebay auctions for example, without having to run multiple browsers.
>
>
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