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Loved Opera back in the day. It had "page specific settings" that would let me allow to set HTTP/Socks5 proxies on a per-page setting - today you cannot even set a proxy anymore without changing your system settings (not browser settings).

If anyone asks, I used this heavily to bypass country blocks/redirects on a per-page level and also with privoxy on some privacy invading sites.



> today you cannot even set a proxy anymore without changing your system settings (not browser settings).

you can in firefox settings

you can also do it in chrome with the cli parameter --proxy-server


> you can in firefox settings

Obviously a remnant from the Netscape codebase. They will fix it.


I still miss Opera 12.16...


You can do some basic routing using the domain name or the IP via an advanced proxy, such as v2ray. Shadowrocket on iOS also supports this.


Firefox has proxy settings. Socks5 is bugged though. Doesn't support user/password authentication.


And don't forget the ability to run a web server from within the browser. Opera was sometimes buggy, but it was really the first "browser as an operating system".


foxyproxy does this. i set up a ssh passthrough and routed foxyproxy with only specifed pages to use local proxy which meant they would be routed through the ssh. it worked for what i wanted


I miss Proxomitron




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