Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How To Set Up A Proxy On Firefox

Proxies are used by many internet users to keep their identity safe, a proxy is there to hide your ip address and display a different one for you (Not your original one). This way you can surf the internet anonymously with no hassle of beeing tracked back to your original ip address given to you by your internet service providor.Follow the next few steps to learn how to set up a proxy on your firefox web browser.


Step 1

Click on the tools button on the top left of the firefox browser screen.



Step 2

Click on the options button that drops down on the menu.



Step 3

Click on the 'Advanced' button.


Step 4

Click on the 'Network' tab.


Step 5

And finally click on the 'Settings' button.



Step 6

Click on the 'Manual Proxy Configuration' option and input your proxy and port in the space given to you below.


Step 7

Finally click the 'OK' button.Congratulations you have set up a proxy on your firefox browser.Visit www.myip.dk to see if it works.



Visit these website to get some proxy lists and test the proxies speed.


www.aliveproxy.com

Checks if proxy is alive and tells you its speed.


www.samair.ru

Free proxy list.

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