How do I know if my browser is using proxy?

Is Chrome a proxy browser?

As Google Chrome is more popular than other browser I am curious if its a good and reliable proxy browser?

Does anyone know if Google chrome is more used as a proxy (or is it even possible that it is a browser itself with built in proxy capability)? Yes, Chrome can act as a proxy server. You could use it for bypassing firewalls and such on a per-session basis as explained here: It has also been observed that certain servers may work better with Chrome than with other browsers. A known example of this is Twitter's REST API. From a technical point of view, their API documentation seems to be written for Chrome, and not the other way around.

Is proxy browser safe to use?

Hi I just want to ask if proxy browser is safe to use because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the proxy.

I'm not going to be using a proxy for hacking or anything. I'm just going to use a proxy for the purposes of being anonymous and hiding my location. Does that make sense?

Re: ? I had no idea there was another kind of proxy. I figured it was just about the same thing as tor. I'm still not sure what it does better than tor though. I guess my biggest concern is making sure there's no way of tracking my location through the proxy.

Tor works by routing your traffic through multiple servers, so the only way to get any information from the user's end is if you're using a packet sniffer on the network layer. If you use a dedicated proxy, you can get info from the proxy itself, but not from your computer.

"Tor works by routing your traffic through multiple servers, so the only way to get any information from the user's end is if you're using a packet sniffer on the network layer. " Can you elaborate on that? I'm not that well versed in the networking protocol to really understand how that would work. Actually, this is a good point. Using a proxy browser, wouldn't your connection to a site be encrypted? The proxy server can then decrypt the traffic (or not, depending on how it is set up), but nothing the proxy sees can be decrypted. So, in a sense, you're encrypting the data as it goes across the network. It's certainly an interesting idea and I've not thought of it before.

Originally Posted by ktakar. If you're talking about encrypted HTTPS, then yes, the encrypted traffic is sent over the network.