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Fast proxy switching in Opera

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If you frequently switch proxy, it's annoying to change it every time in Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Network → Proxy servers

If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this. Add the following below the line Item, 52216 = Enable proxy servers | Disable proxy servers under [Quick Preferences Menu] and change 127.0.0.1:5865 & 127.0.0.1:8080 with your proxy servers.

Item, "HTTP 127.0.0.1:5865" = Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=127.0.0.1:5865" 
Item, "HTTP 127.0.0.1:8080" = Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=127.0.0.1:8080"

You can switch proxy server quickly in Quick preferences (F12).

Proxy servers in Quick preferences
Proxy servers in Quick preferences

You can also use the following instead of above to set proxy server for http, https & ftp protocols but Opera won't respond for awhile when you switch proxy server.

Item, "HTTP,HTTPS,FTP 127.0.0.1:5865" = Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=127.0.0.1:5865" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTPS server=127.0.0.1:5865" & Set preference, "Proxy|FTP server=127.0.0.1:5865"
Item, "HTTP,HTTPS,FTP 127.0.0.1:8080" = Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=127.0.0.1:8080" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTPS server=127.0.0.1:8080" & Set preference, "Proxy|FTP server=127.0.0.1:8080"

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Comments

Indyan 10. April 2007, 20:46

Thats an awesome tip.

kardjo 19. April 2007, 03:08

WOW.. very clear... Thank's. Good Work!

VJgamer 21. May 2007, 17:51

Tamil, your a life saver!

Anonymous 28. June 2007, 15:33

vital writes:

great! thanks!

Anonymous 7. August 2007, 23:53

Anonymous writes:

Fantastic - been looking for a trick like this for ages. Many thanks!

Anonymous 13. September 2007, 11:28

Anonymous writes:

do u no any proxy sites dat work at skool

Anonymous 17. September 2007, 16:32

Anonymous writes:

I set HTTP, HTTPS and FTP as one Proxy and HTTP, HTTPs as another. How can i disabled the unwanted FTP Proxy?

Tamil 17. September 2007, 17:02

How can i disabled the unwanted FTP Proxy?

Try changing FTP server=127.0.0.1:8080 to Use FTP=0

Anonymous 17. September 2007, 17:33

Anonymous writes:

That works very good but there is some bug in it i think because when i use this two lines

http://cxg.de/?id=OVPqHJwNZxjegGT

and im hitting first the gateway proxy and then the debianS1 proxy he only changes the FTP proxy and leaves the HTTP and HTTPs settings.

relation 21. September 2007, 12:52

when i use the http, https & ftp protocols together, the Radio Button besides the menu option is not displayed.

Tamil 22. September 2007, 14:06

Originally posted by relation:

when i use the http, https & ftp protocols together, the Radio Button besides the menu option is not displayed.

:yes: it won't show radio button.

mokushi 14. November 2007, 23:18

Tamil, I bow to you oh great one m(_ _)m.
Ive got ip tunneling and 3 ipv4 adresses on my nic and switch the outgoing adress using 3proxy wich is mapping a port to an outgoing address. It's been a hassle till now as i could only have one of them (enabled or disabled) without going the loong way in preferences every time. Now i can switch between any of the 3 ip's as well as TOR with just an F12 + click. You made my day.

Anonymous 13. January 2008, 15:54

Loevborg writes:

Good information!

If you'd like to do the same, but with "Automatic Proxy Configuration", as required it some settings, then use this:

Item, "Proxy LRZ" = Set preference, "Proxy|Automatic Proxy Configuration URL=url.to.pac" & Set Preference, "Proxy|Use Automatic Proxy Configuration=1"

Anonymous 28. August 2008, 07:47

untergehen writes:

Great howto. Could I somehow put the proxy menu items down to the status bar? Like SwitchProxy tool in Firefox?

Tamil 28. August 2008, 17:50

Could I somehow put the proxy menu items down to the status bar?

:yes: Modify proxy servers in following code, paste in textarea below Step 3. Create the button, click Create Button and then drag & drop button to status bar.
Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=127.0.0.1:5865",,"127.0.0.1:5865" > Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=127.0.0.1:8080",,"127.0.0.1:8080"

BanjoPaterson 3. September 2008, 13:40

Excellent! just what I was after. Thank you :smile:

Anonymous 2. October 2008, 02:30

James Caccese writes:

Hey, any reason that these options wouldn't work?

Item, "No Proxy" = Set preference, "Proxy|Automatic Proxy Configuration URL=" & Set Preference, "Proxy|Use Automatic Proxy Configuration=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTP=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTPS server=" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTPS=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|FTP server=" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE FTP=0"
Item, "Automatic Proxy" = Set preference, "Proxy|Automatic Proxy Configuration URL=autoproxy.example.com/proxy" & Set Preference, "Proxy|Use Automatic Proxy Configuration=1" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTP=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTPS server=" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTPS=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|FTP server=" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE FTP=0"
Item, "Hardcoded Proxy 1" = Set preference, "Proxy|Automatic Proxy Configuration URL=" & Set Preference, "Proxy|Use Automatic Proxy Configuration=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=hardcode1.example.com:80" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTP=1" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTPS server=hardcode1.example.com:80" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTPS=1" & Set preference, "Proxy|FTP server=hardcode1.example.com:80" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE FTP=1"
Item, "Hardcoded Proxy 2" = Set preference, "Proxy|Automatic Proxy Configuration URL=" & Set Preference, "Proxy|Use Automatic Proxy Configuration=0" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTP server=hardcode2.example.com:80" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTP=1" & Set preference, "Proxy|HTTPS server=hardcode2.example.com:80" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE HTTPS=1" & Set preference, "Proxy|FTP server=hardcode2.example.com:80" & Set preference, "Proxy|USE FTP=1"

(wow! super large post -- sorry)

I mean, sometimes they do, I can tell because of the momentary 'pause'.
Sometimes they will work, sometimes they wouln't.

From my about opera:
Version: 9.52
Build: 10108
Platform: Win32
System: Windows XP
Java: Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.5
XHTML+Voice: Plug-in not loaded

-James

Tamil 2. October 2008, 10:25

Sorry, I can't figure out why it is not working. :confused:

Please post in forums.

Anonymous 8. October 2008, 15:59

Fred writes:

Thank you. For unix users, the menu file is ~/.opera/menu/standard_menu_1.ini

Unfortunately, socks proxies are not supported, and the chosen proxy is not marked in the list. We're far from firefox + foxyproxy but it's a nice workaround.

Anonymous 1. February 2009, 15:13

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good. no coment

pwseo 5. March 2009, 01:02

I had been looking for something like this for ages... I can't believe I only started to learn how customizable Opera is now.. I've been missing a lot lol!

Great Tip, and awesome blog :)

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