[...] Anyhow, to beef up my application for research department status here’s another great little free piece of software that I’ve recently come across that solves a real problem for me and hopefully for your listeners too. If you have a laptop and you move from network to network a lot there’s a good chance that you’ll have to use different proxy settings in different places. I have this problem when I move from home to college to work with my MBP and it’s really annoying. Were I to use Safari this would, of course, not be a problem, because OS X’s location switching will ensure that Safari gets the right proxy settings from the OS but I’m an avid FireFox user and I’m not going to give up all the extensions I love just to make it easier to move around! I figured I couldn’t be the only person to have run into this problem so there must be a nice extension out there for this. Turns out there are a few to choose from but a quick poke around led me to choose one, SwitchProxy at addons.mozilla.org/firefox/125, which suits me perfectly because it easily lets me set and name as many configurations as I want, it supports PAC files (Proxy Auto Config files), and it gives me a nice drop-down box for switching between the different profiles I’ve set up and also to turn off proxies all together. I found the default setup a little too space-consuming but you can get round that very easily. As ever there is a full review with full instructions and some screen-shots on my blog here: bartbusschots.ie/blog and then click on the post about Firefox extensions. …