• The download added the extension automatically.
  To this you must make it possible to install the extensions for the site www.Proxy-Offline-Browser.com.
• At first you save the extension as a file on the hard disk.
  To this you click with the right mouse button on the link to the download and select from the context menu: Save Link As ...
  • You then select in the Firefox the menu File / Open File ... and select the file: MM3-ProxySwitch.xpi

You can use the ProxySwitch with

Firefox	2.0 - 3.1b3pre		Thunderbird	2.0 - 3.0b2pre
SeaMonkey	1.0 - 2.0a2		Nvu	1.0 - 2.0
Mozilla Suite	1.0 - 1.8+

Note

After a restart of the Firefox the ProxySwitch is available.

You still must add the symbol for the ProxySwitch to the toolbar (Menu Bar or Navigation Toolbar) now.
Click with the right mouse button on the toolbar and select the entry from the popup menu: Custumize ...
Drag the symbol ProxySwitch into the toolbar.

Note

• With a click on the symbol ProxySwitch you can change between the direct connection to the internet and a proxy configuration.
  
  You recognize the used connection by the symbol:
  • direct Internet connection
  • a proxy configuration (If you don't use symbols in the Firefox, the configuration name is then highlighted in addition.)
  
  

  Tool Tipp

  The name of the used configuration and the name after switching are displayed.

  The names indicate:

  • Direct: Direct Internet connection
  • Manual: Proxy configuration entered in the browser manually
• You can select a proxy configuration from the popup menu.
• You can edit the proxy configurations with the menu Edit.

• http, ssl, ftp, gopher and socks
  Enter the proxy for any required protocol.
• all
  The same proxy is used for all protocols.
• noProxy
  For the given domains the proxy shall not be used.
• url
  A script is used for the proxy configuration.

Every configuration has a definite name and starts with the bracket [ and ends with the bracket ].
This name is displayed in the popup menu.
The bracket [ and ] as well as every keyword must be in a new line.
According to the structure in the following example.

Example

You can define short keys to switch between different proxy configurations.

• modifiers alt, control, shift, accel, meta (only for Macintosh)
  If you need several modifiers, then you separate these by comma.
• keycode
  • Only be used for printable characters e.g. a-z 0-9
  • Or special code start with VK_
    See: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_Tutorial:Keyboard_Shortcuts

Note

Example

Before you use the Offline Browser WebAssistant - Proxy Offline Browser, the cache of your browser should be deleted. With the keyword clear this is carried out automatically.

Example

When switching over the proxy configuration a other homepage can be displayed. To this you indicate the homepage at the respective proxy configuration with the keyword homepage.

Example

If you select a proxy configuration, then this is immediately used per default. With the keyword direct the select configuration is entered. The direct connection to the internet is used, however.

Example

Note

If you use different networks with your laptop computer, then the required configuration can be determined automatically. There are two possibilities for it.

IP-Address determines proxy configuration

The IP address used currently determines the matching proxy configuration from several deposited entries.

The respective IP address is the name of the proxy configuration. If you need an area of IP addresses, then you indicate only the constant part with that the IP address starts.

Example

You use two different proxy configurations.

• For the IP address: 192.168.0.1
• For the IP address area: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255

Enter for this in the editor:
[192.168.0.1
  http=...
]
[10.
  http=...
]
import=IP

The entry import=IP activates this function so that at every restart of the Firefox the matching proxy configuration is used.
Alternative: Use the ProxySwitch menu: Import IP

Note

If several, in the ProxySwitch registered IPs are available in your network, then the last entry is used.

If your Internet Explorer is already configured automatically into dependence of your network environment, then you can use this configuration also in the Firefox.

This proxy configuration gets the name in the ProxySwitch: IE

Enter for this in the editor:
import=IE

Now every restart of the Firefox imports the active proxy configuration of the Internet Explorer.
Alternative: Use the ProxySwitch menu: Import IE

Note: This function is only available in the Firefox (version 1.5 and higher) for Windows.