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Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings?
Trying to understand why doesn't Chrome have its own proxy settings.
- eli 16y agoPretty sure that's a best practice for Windows software. IE's proxy settings are synonymous with Windows system-wide proxy settings.
- rjhackin 16y agoTrue, they could have provided a setting that you can enable/disable/override within their options page instead of using a switch. May be there is design decision behind this.
- adamkhrona 16y agoChrome was designed to be as simple and easy-to-use as possible; part of this initiative involved being immediately compatible with most corporate set-ups (eg, IE users on a company intranet) so a decision was made to use Windows' proxy configuration settings out of the box. You can actually override the proxy settings yourself via command line switches, however-- look through this page and search for "proxy": http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
- rjhackin 16y agoThis is a useful link, this should come up on the top of search results, this never came up for some reason.