How to set up a proxy server to work with my browser?

Set up proxy in the Internet Explorer & Netscape Navigator browsers:

Enable or disable proxy server settings for Google Chrome

I thought I would have to download Google Chrome source code and customize it :-p. Luckily, there is an ready-made option switch called --proxy-server to define proxy server independently for Google Chrome, i.e. –proxy-server overwrites Google Chrome default behaviour of sharing proxy server settings with Internet Explorer.

So, I right click the Google Chrome shortcut and add --proxy-server= to chrome.exe in order to forcibly disable Google Chrome proxy server settings, while still allows Internet Explorer 7 to surf Net via corporate proxy server:

Proxy Settings in Mozilla Firefox

• 1.Click Tools->Options;
• 2. "General", "Connection Settings";
• 3. Select "Manual Proxy Configuration";
• 4. Enter proxy IP and port to appropriate fields;
• 5. Click OK to close Connection Settings;
• 6. Click OK to close Options;
• 7. Reload Mozilla Firefox.

Proxy Settings in Internet Explorer 4.X

• 1.Click "View" \ "Internet Options");
• 2. Click "Connections";
• 3. Enable "use a proxy server";
• 4. In fields "Address" and "port" type proxy name and proxy port;
• 5. If nessesary, enable "bypass proxy server for local addresses";
• 6. Click "OK".

Proxy Settings in Internet Explorer 5.X - 6.x

• 1.Click "Service" \ "Internet Options";
• 2. Click "Connections";
• 3. If you use Dial-Up connection, choose your connection and click "Settings" button. if you use LAN connection, click "LAN Settings" button in the "Local Area Network (LAN) Settings" group box;
• 4. Enable "use a proxy server";
• 5. In fields "Address" and "port", type proxy name and proxy port;
• 6. If nessesary, enable "bypass proxy server for local addresses";
• 7. Click "OK";
• 8. Click "OK" to close Internet Explorer settings.

Why Proxy

Transfer speed improvement. If the file you requested was received before to your proxy server, then proxy server will interrupt this file request and you will receive the file directly from proxy. However need to know, you can got the "speed down" effect. This effect appears when your proxy has long answer time because there is slow connection between you and your proxy server.

Security and privacy. Anonymous proxies destroys information about your computer in the requests header. So you can safely surf the net and your information will never be used by hackers and spammers.

Sometimes you encounter some problems while accessing to web server (for example, web-chat). You have mistaken while working with some data and / or the server administrator restricted access from your IP. So you can use the anonymous proxy and try to access again.