FoxyProxy Proxy: Advanced Browser Management Plugin

What the hell does this thing do?

Recently, some friends always ask me to use the browser to engage in proxy have to install plug-ins? Direct system settings do not smell? Let's put it this way, as if you want to eat hot pot, induction cooker can also cook, but professional hot pot restaurant with copper pot charcoal fire that flavor is correct.FoxyProxy is the browser in the "copper pot", specializing in solving the need forFrequent proxy switchingof trouble.

To cite a real scene: do cross-border e-commerce that buddy, every day to check the price of goods in 20 different countries. With the traditional proxy, you have to repeatedly enter the settings and change the parameters, and your hands are sore. After installing FoxyProxy, directly point to the plug-in icon to select the country, and change the TV channel as easy.

Hands-on with plug-ins

Don't rush to the official website to download it, the latest version is prone to jerking in the Firefox store. Offline installer is recommended:

1. Open the browser extension center
2. Drag the downloaded .xpi file into it.
3. Don't hesitate to click "Add" when you see the popup window.

Attention! After installationDon't close the page yet.If the fox icon in the upper right corner is colored, it will be considered successful. If it's gray, it's probably because you don't have permission to access it, go to the extension settings and check the "Allow access to all websites" box.

Configuring the ipipgo proxy for a tawdry operation

Here's a pitfall to avoid: many people just fill in the ip address and it fails in half an hour. The correct position is to use the dynamic tunnel provided by ipipgo:

Here's the kicker.Matching rulesSettings: For example, to use a proxy for a treasure, do not be silly to fill in .tao.com, now the site are set of CDN, you have to use regular expressions:

^https?://([a-z]+.) taobao.com/.

These scenarios are the most enjoyable to use

1. Online store price comparison: set up independent proxy rules for different e-commerce platforms, and automatically switch IP to check the real price.
2. Data collection: with the script to switch IP regularly, not afraid of being blocked!
3. Local testing: simulate the effect of national user access to check whether the CDN is in effect

The last time to help friends debug the loading speed of the site, with ipipgo Wuhan node found that the picture loading slow, the results found out that the local CDN is not deployed, this feature is really practical.

Guidelines on demining of common problems

Q: Proxy shows connected but can't go online?
A: 80% is a certificate problem, go to ipipgo background to download the latest CA certificate, manually import browser

Q: How long do I have to wait to switch IPs?
A: In the plug-in settings, change the "connection timeout" from the default 30 seconds to 10 seconds, ipipgo nodes basically respond within 5 seconds!

Q: Too many rules to manage?
A: Live use of tags grouping, such as by "e-commerce", "social", "video" categorization, easy to find!

Why do you recommend ipipgo?

Having used multiple proxy services, I ended up locking ipipgo for just three reasons:
1. The IP pool is wild.: They use dynamic residential IPs, which are harder to recognize than server room IPs
2. It's a solid line.: Watching videos without lagging in the evening rush hour is key to this
3. Aftermarket is just enough: There was a node failure and customer service responded in seconds at 2:00 a.m.

The last nagging sentence: do not waste time on the free proxy, before the figure of cheap with free IP, the results of the account was stolen. ipipgo although charges, but the first month of the new user 9.9 yuan, can not be bought to lose can not be fooled.