A solution to the Galeon situation?

[Joel Young]

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From: George J Karabin <gkarabin at pobox.com>
> I can't think of any existing browsers or programs that I've used
> (mozilla, IE) that provide a per-session choice of proxy configuration.
> Am I off base there?

Galeon use to make it easy to switch.  There was a menu choice that
turned a proxy on and off.  Then that choice seemed to stop working,
then it disappeared. IIRC

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> > From: George J Karabin <gkarabin at pobox.com>
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:51, Joel Young wrote:
> > > Sometimes I need to run with two different browsers so I can have one
> > > without a proxy and the other with one.
> > 
> > Can you describe a scenario when you'd like to do this? Is it that you
> > want to only use the proxy for certain host names or netmasks? 
> 
> I have a couple of different web proxies I use.  One of them provides a
> snapshot of the web from 1997 I use for web spidering research.  I like
> to be able to point my browser at that proxy for periods of time to be
> able to navigate thru that snapshot.  I have another proxy which saves
> any images I encounter.  I don't want to use that all the time either.
> One of the machines has a caching and anonomizing proxy which I might
> like to use sometimes.  
> 
> I want to be able to navigate my snapshot at the same time as checking
> my ebay auctions for example, without having to run multiple browsers.