Reviews for FoxyProxy Standard
FoxyProxy Standard by Eric Jung, erosman
163 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14420011, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by LXN, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Afri, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kountry, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ahmad Gharbeia, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15290116, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15158596, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15037685, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14669073, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by RovasT, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 我帥我驕傲, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by azraelle, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14241892, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13452603, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vasili Gulevich, 7 years agoLatest version requests permissions to delete browsing data. Why proxy management software would do that?
Please move that function into a dedicated plugin and use only necessary permissions in each.
UPDATE:
I'm not worried about a plugin stealing my data. I just don't want to have a bloated do-it all plugin, that uses permissions it does not need.
I agree, that different contexts when using different proxies may be useful, but that is supposed to be done with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/contextualIdentities and not with data deletion. Even then, it's probably a scope of a different dedicated plugin.
I would also like to point out, that if you decide to remove browsing data access later, it will be a removal of a well-used feature (and much more users will come yelling), while now it is an addition of an unnecessary quirk.
To be less negative, let me say it in a different way. I adore the simplicity of previous version, with a little bit of UI polishing it would easily become my favorite plugin. Please don't take that true quality of a dedicated tool from us.Developer response
posted 7 years agoSome people want to delete browsing data when switching proxy servers. Right now there is a button in FoxyProxy to delete browsing data manually, but we also want to add the option to delete it automatically when proxies are switched. Why are you so upset about it? Do you think FoxyProxy is stealing your browsing data? Because if it wanted to, it could already do that before these new permissions--simply by watching all traffic going through your proxy servers. Of course, it doesn't do that, but you are no less secure with these new permissions than before; that is my point. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 6116874, 7 years agoPlease consider reverting the new Cookie permission requirement. I prefer this add-on to be solely resposible for handling proxy connections.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13885219, 7 years agoWhy would I want to allow a proxy switcher to clear my recent browsing history, cookies, and related data!? A proxy switcher should only make sure the appropriate proxy is used nothing else.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13975815, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13887816, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13619399, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13599172, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by PatheticCockroach, 7 years agoEditing my review, around 6 years later, after an ABSOLUTELY DISASTROUS update (v8.2 it seems) that got automatically applied today (this is why auto-updates are bad and I used to disable them all the time - I should have kept this up).
I use multiple separate profiles, each with distinct proxy settings. The update lost the extension settings fully in half of my profiles. In one of them (my main one, mind you), it SILENTLY DISABLED the SOCKS proxy that I had configured via Firefox's settings.
Luckily, I checked my IP that same day for another reason so I was able to detect that without my IP getting leaked for days or weeks or more without me noticing. But this could have been much worse. Totally unacceptable.
---- Old review below:
I used that add-on a bit pre-Fx 57, and it felt quite bloated at the time.
I tried it again after the WebExtension mayhem, and I really like this new version. For my rather simple use case (being able to use and switch between a bunch of SOCKS5 proxies that require username+password), it's quite perfect. I also like that it's easy to import/export settings, so that I can duplicate my config between my several profiles.
As someone else said, it would be nice to be able to disable logging, and apparently that feature is coming soon :)