1) To keep machines anonymous
2) Speed up network performance using proxy server caching.
3) Maintain and apply access policy to network services or content, that is to block undesired sites.
4) Internet usage reporting.
5) To bypass security/ parental controls.
6) To circumvent regional restrictions.
Whatever the purposes, if you use proxy server then in the client machine's browser you need to point the proxy server to use it. This post is a demonstration of how to configure proxy in firefox browser.
Step 01: Find out the address and port of your proxy server. If you want to use free proxy server from Internet then just do a search in google about anonymous proxy server IP Address. One such list you can find from Proxy4free list. Through the sites listed here you can browse website without doing any configuration in your browser and can browse anonymously using third party website. However if you have IP Address and port of the proxy server you need to configure your browser to surf website anonymously. Such lists can be found from Samair proxy IP address.
Following is the screenshot from which I can get proxy IP address and port number.
Step 02: From firefox menu bar click on Tools and then options.
Firefox Options window will appear. Click on Advance Options and then select Network tab. Click Settings button under Connection. You will see following window.
Step 03: Click on Settings. Connection Settings window will appear. In Connection Settings window, click radio button Manual proxy configuration. Type the IP address in HTTP Proxy box and Port address in Port textbox. (In this example HTTP Proxy address is 67.8.194.225 and Port is 8085).
Also check the box "Use this proxy server for all protocols". If you do this then all protocol will use this proxy address.
Following is the screenshot.
Click on ok and you are done.
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