Reviews for FoxyProxy Standard
FoxyProxy Standard by Eric Jung, erosman
923 reviews
- 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. - Rated 1 out of 5by RussC, 7 years agoThis is a giant step back from the wonderful functionality I've come to enjoy as a professional. I realise that this is free software but as it stands right now I am looking for the old version and I will be seeking an alternative.
So much functionality has been lost and a terrifying new GUI put in place, as a professional who relies on the ability to switch proxies I can no longer recommend this to anyone other than a user who has very simple needs.
I can understand that you may need to make progress at some point but really this should've stayed at an Alpha/Beta stage until the majority of features worked.
I wonder how much damage has been done to your reputation for switching this addon in such a state and I really worry for the future of FoxyProxy. - Rated 1 out of 5by Xavier Haenen, 7 years agoLast update removed my proxies and trying to import an old save export file doesn't work????
In the old version you could choose socks and now not more?
When will you fix this?Developer response
posted 7 years agoLook for SOCKS under "Proxy Type" when adding a new proxy. It is there. - Rated 1 out of 5by took, 7 years agoThis is crazy! All the previous settings are gone, and even worse, the new version does not work at all!! It also has so few options/functions that it is not possible to set up the proxy and patterns as in the old version.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13272598, 7 years agoVery annoying and disruptive to lose all my saved proxies and rules on the most recent update
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13272584, 7 years agoMy Proxies are gone. No way to revert and in the new version not all features are available.
From best to worst in a single update. - Rated 1 out of 5by noisegate95, 7 years agoWith no warning, all my proxies are deleted - with one simple behind the scenes and silent update. Now I have to go find my backup, grab the xml, restore the older version, and restore the file. Just what I feel like doing on a Monday morning, at work.
No way to import as the button does nothing.
Working with Firefox, and all its extensions, if just getting too damn difficult anymore. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13272340, 7 years agoРазрабы одним махом запоганили замечательное предложение которое исправно работало много лет.
Хотя бы предупредили что будут удалены все прокси. Как их сейчас восстановить? Как? - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13272183, 7 years agoNot work with squid based proxy, I had to goback to the 4.6 version
- Rated 2 out of 5by o-neil, 7 years agoIt was quite ok for the purpose I used it for, although not so comfortable to configure with its user interface, but now getting worse.
I am still using it as I don't want to look for an alternative due to time issues, but probably not so long anymore.
It really got worse with the version 5.
I rolled back to version 4.6.5 manually and deactivated the auto-update for this addon.
I lost all my settings due to the auto-update to version 5, which they also mention in the desciption of the new version - below - with saying sorry, but a sorry does not help.
The import function should work and should exactly solve the supposed "Firefox limitations" but it doesn't do..
Although the old design wasn't really good either, the new design is just a nightmare.
Besides that the new version displays my proxy password in cleartext on the screen - no way! - Rated 3 out of 5by Dave, 7 years agoI have changed my review from a 1 to 3 (for this version, 4.5.6 gets a 5/5) after working with v5 on my dev machine. I'm not keen on the new user interface and it dropping all my old proxies/rules (really need a working import) but now I have battled the new interface I can get all my proxies working as before (I have a mix of Bluecoat SG, SOCKS 5, putty SSH tunnels and Squids)
I think the issue is that Eric felt rushed release a non-lecacy version and maybe should have released this once a working import was functional and a few more of the older functions where working ie colour change icon on proxy use, more adult looking UI, same RHC function on the icon(I use this a lot).
For now I need to keep 4.6.5 on my main workstation but will move to 5 if the older function can be brought over.
@Eric - thanks for the time and effort you must put into this addon, I know it can't be easy.
OLD Review from this morning:-
I use this addon with some very complex rules and have always loved the addon, that is until v5.0, I've had to rollback to Version 4.6.5 and block auto updating, v5.0 seems like a different addon altogether, nothing imported, nothing worked and most of the features seem to be missing.Developer response
posted 7 years agoPlease revert to the old version by:
1. Uninstall the version you have now (type about:addons in the address type and remove FoxyProxy)
2. Install the one version from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/versions/ you want version 4.6.5
3. Your old settings will magically reappear
This is a temporary solution--that older version will only work until November 2017 when Firefox 57 comes out. But long before that time, the new version will have evolved with more features. Note that some features are not possible anymore due to Firefox's new addon ecosystem called WebExtensions. They are much more restricted than older addons (pre Firefox-57) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13271832, 7 years agoMy main request = force "no proxy" as greyed out in standard Firefox settings (blocked by my company). Does not work any more in 5.0.0 as many features were removed. Sad!
Update after reply from the developer: sadly it doesn't work anymore. With previous versions, I was able to "bypass" the proxy hardcoded in Firefox by my company, and that doesn't work with FoxyProxy v5 as it used to in v4.x. I rolled back to v4.x for now, hoping that this issue will be solved before Firefox v57. Thanks for you reply anyway!Developer response
posted 7 years agoPlease revert to the old version by:
1. Uninstall the version you have now (type about:addons in the address type and remove FoxyProxy)
2. Install the one version from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/versions/ you want version 4.6.5
3. Your old settings will magically reappear
This is a temporary solution--that older version will only work until November 2017 when Firefox 57 comes out. But long before that time, the new version will have evolved with more features. Note that some features are not possible anymore due to Firefox's new addon ecosystem called WebExtensions. They are much more restricted than older addons (pre Firefox-57) - Rated 3 out of 5by AcidCrash, 7 years agoNice to see that extension is now FF57+ compatible.
However are there any plans on restoring some old (that are currently missing) features like:
- Auto-choose proxy (based on pattern), always proxy etc,
- button icon indication of proxy usage.
Also the toolbar menu itself is a bit unnatural-looking comparing to other ones. Could you make it more similar to the coming FF57 styling guidelines?Developer response
posted 7 years agoPlease revert to the old version by:
1. Uninstall the version you have now (type about:addons in the address type and remove FoxyProxy)
2. Install the one version from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/versions/ you want version 4.6.5
3. Your old settings will magically reappear
This is a temporary solution--that older version will only work until November 2017 when Firefox 57 comes out. But long before that time, the new version will have evolved with more features. Note that some features are not possible anymore due to Firefox's new addon ecosystem called WebExtensions. They are much more restricted than older addons (pre Firefox-57)