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Are you a student? Are you a working employee? Are Sites like MySpace, GMail etc blocked in your school or workplace. If yes and you want to access blocked sites you need to use a proxy. Traditionally Proxy has been a very difficult thing to use for lay users. But incase you are using Firefox then you stand to make your proxy life just a little better.

What is FoxyProxy?

• Want fine-grained control over which websites load through proxies?
• Live in Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan Uzbekistan, Vietnam, or one of the other nations who censor the internet?
• Can’t get to MySpace from school?
• Can’t get to GMail at work?

then foxyproxy is for you!. here is a rundown into its uber cool features…

• Animated statusbar/toolbar icons show you when a proxy is in use
• Define multiple proxies
• Define which proxy to use (or none!) for arbitrary URLs using wildcards, regular expression and other conveniences
• No more wondering whether a URL loaded through a proxy or not: FoxyProxy optionally logs all URLs, including which proxy was used (if any), which pattern was matched, timestamps, etc.
• Out-of-the-box support for Tor with the unique Tor Wizard - zero configuration!
• Temporarily or permanently dedicate all URLs to go through a particular proxy
• Temporarily or permanently disable use of a proxy
• Automatically add blocked sites to a proxy and have them reload through the proxy
• Optional status bar information about which proxy is currently in use
• Complete Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) support
• Download a link using one of your defined proxies with a simple right-click (coming soon)
• Unobtrusive presence, stable execution, premier support
• Optionally force Firefox to perform DNS lookups through a SOCKS4a/5 server. Note that Firefox without FoxyProxy always performs DNS lookups through a SOCKS5 server if you’ve defined one. Only with FoxyProxy can you instruct Firefox to not use defined SOCKS5 servers for DNS lookups.

So Go ahead and try out FoxyProxy and make browsing the web anonymously as easy as biting a piece of cake.