Reviews for FoxyProxy Standard
FoxyProxy Standard by Eric Jung, erosman
913 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13451686, 7 years agoThanks for upgrading it for FF57. It has a smaller feature set now but I guess it cannot be helped with the new addon API.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoWe will be adding more features soon (context menus, quick add, clear cache&cookies on proxy switch). But it will take some time. - Rated 5 out of 5by Fygo Wu, 7 years agoWhen can this new ff57 edition import proxy files like gfw-list?
Manual input patterns is horrible.
Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Clovis Fabricio COsta, 7 years agoDeveloper fixed everything in record time. Recommend.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wolfram Schlich, 7 years agoNew version for FF57 just sucks because FF57 just sucks in so many relevant aspects! Old Foxyproxy was great!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13470400, 7 years agoI hope some day functionality of old version will be restored in this one (automatic proxy selection depending on the site), until then i switch to another addon, UI in this new foxyproxy is not user friendly at all
edit: Thanks, works just like before, I'm very happy with this addon again now ! - Rated 5 out of 5by 昏睡墨鱼, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13462713, 7 years agoWorks great, wish I could use some proxy list from the internet in case my proxy drops
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13462030, 7 years agoThanks for developing such a nice add-on. I was quite sad when I saw it wans't available for FF57, but it is now *-*.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13459795, 7 years agoWhat a very nice message I got today, can I also donate BTC (that's just so much easier than PayPal, at least if you have BTC lying around). Good luck getting Foxy Proxy back up to snuff!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13457299, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TouhouFun, 7 years agoEarlier it's work through TOR Expert Bundle + vidalia, if indicate as proxy 127.0.0.1, like that: http://rutracker.wiki/images/8/84/Ff-second-tab.png, http://rutracker.wiki/images/2/25/Ff-third-tab.png, but now - it's broken and dont work. Now I hurt
UPDATE: Thank to support, I found my mistake, all working! I apologize for my mistake.Developer response
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https://ibb.co/b0aBiR - Rated 5 out of 5by MadtownChris, 7 years agoHas been excellent for years. Now got it working in FF57. Something I found was that if you are using your local host as a proxy server (e.g. through putty) the 127.0.0.1 address doesn't seem to work. If you use localhost instead, it works fine.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13442687, 7 years agoGreat product. Quick replies to support issues. Will be looking for a way to paypal author a beer. :)
- Rated 4 out of 5by saviorium, 7 years agoI managed to make it work in 57, and I think it's the best proxy switcher here. Other extension just throw premium proxies in your face and collect your data for promotional needs.
Firefox proxy settings were interfering with FoxyProxy. Switched to "Use system settings" and it's works fine.
I know developer is working hard to make it work in new firefox.
There was a good feature in old version. Adding sites to list by hotkey. I hope you bring that to new version eventually.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for kind words. The feature you want is called QuickAdd. I may not be able to add it by hotkey (WebExtension limitation for now, as far as I understand), but I can add it as a context-menu (right-click) option. - Rated 4 out of 5by Jorn, 7 years agoAfter the FF57 update I imported my configuration from FF56. I thought it was working fine, the URLs I had set up patterns for were being fetched through the specified proxy, or so I thought because the logs told me so. However this morning, I forgot to start Tor (the proxy I'm using), however all the URLs were being loaded, even the ones that were, according to the FoxyProxy log, loaded through the proxy. So it seems like it isn't working at all.
Great Add-on however! I understand the difficulties with porting the Add-on to WebExtensions and I am confident that the developer is capable of fixing this.Developer response
posted 7 years agoFixed in 6.1.7. sorry for the trouble. The log shows all URLs, even ones that fail to load. - Rated 5 out of 5by maxim, 7 years agoThis is a must have extension for firefox. Developer made a great job, porting this to ff 57+. Thank's a lot! btw is there any way to import patterns from version 4.6.5 or will it be imported on update (have 4.6.5 running on different machine, not updating it yet)?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the kind words! Import does not happen automatically. But it's very easy to do: click the Import button and select foxyproxy.xml from your computer. There are instructions on how to find that file. That is the file created by version 4.6.5. It does not get deleted when you upgrade. - Rated 5 out of 5by iambk, 7 years agoI've seen the FoxyProxy developer in the FireFox bug reports doing his best. I really appreciate his efforts. He's not only helping to make FoxyProxy better, he's helping to make FireFox and out experiences better. Thank you Eric H. Jung!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks! I very much appreciate it. I love Mozilla and have been closely involved for many years, even being on their payroll at times :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Marcin Rataj, 7 years agoI upgraded to WebExtension and Firefox 57 today on my work machine and was pleasingly surprised how smooth it was to import settings from legacy version. GUI is a bit different but overall it works like a charm. Use cases I use daily were ported perfectly.
As a fellow add-on developer I can truly appreciate how much work and time was invested to make this rewrite possible.
This add-on is extremely important to me, been using it for years and will use it for many years to come.
Thank you so much for creating and maintaining it!
PS. Please do not get discouraged by less technical people that use reviews to state temporary frustration. I am sure everything will get back to normal next month, when everyone moves on with their lives. - Rated 1 out of 5by lfkempe, 7 years agoSeriously? Permission to download files and change download history? sounds sketchy...
Otherwise I have been using foxyproxy for 5+ years or so and love it, and I understand firefox >= 57 is a big change and it will probably take some time to get thing working as it should again, but i won't use a plugin with those permissions.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe previous FoxyProxy, which you've been using for 5 years, had those permissions and even more: in fact, it had unfettered access to your entire computer (just like every other legacy Firefox addon). It had the ability format your hard drive or steal your passwords. That's because Firefox 56 and earlier didn't have restrictions for addons... at all. The new version of FoxyProxy is much more restricted because of this permissions system.
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Permission to "download files" is required for exporting your settings to a file (which you can then share to other devices for importing). That is how Firefox chose to allow add-ons to write to the local filesytem: you have to trick Firefox into thinking that writing a file (your exported settings) is really a download. The "download history" permission is required simply because Firefox does not allow add-ons to specify just "download files" without "download history". Internally, nothing is done with download history. This is open source software and you can view the code yourself at https://code.getfoxyproxy.org - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12725663, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12534937, 7 years agoIt causes serious memory issue on Firefox 57.
The normal memory usage is about 500+M, and when I turn on foxyproxy standard and swich to pattern mode , the memory usage reachs to about 2.5+G, the total memory of my computer is 8G, this is unacceptable. Please fix this issue and hope a better proxy switcher. Peace.Developer response
posted 7 years agoI cannot reproduce. Maybe you could send your patterns / settings, otherwise there's no hope to fix this. Doing support in comments is not possible. Please contact us at support@getfoxyproxy.ogr with your patterns. Thank you very much.