It’s Chrome without Google! A winning non-combination!
Ever since I started plugging IP addresses into combo boxes (circa 1995), I have been frustrated by the lack of an easy cut&paste method to change addresses quickly, as well as the fact there has never been a standardized IP address interface (some you have to tab through octets, others will take a space, etc).
Just give me a freakin’ Crtl-V. Hell, I’d even settle for a Shift-Ins!
Browsers are halfway there, but you have to copy the port in separately.
Not so with Iron (Chrome as well). It takes a command line option in the form:
-proxy-server=[address]:[port]
DUH!
I can copy out of the List and paste right into the shortcut, adding the colon if required.
THAT’S A QUICK SWITCH, BITCH!
And what is the point of running multiple browsers if you can’t run multiple proxies? That’s one of the things that always pissed me off about Safari (although originally it did support the http_proxy environment variable even in Windows – why the Hell did they take that out?).
Iron is available here. There’s also a Linux version, but watch out because you may never go back to Firefox (or whatever) again!
