RE: [squid-users] Firefox and Squid - How to force the browser to use proxy just like with IE?

Hi Geoff,

Thanks a lot for that, I am already up and running with it. Firefox is
now bound to use Proxy, and without my users needing to know it. Its
fantastic, thanks for pointing it out.

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Varney [
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:06 PM
To: Benedek Frank
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Firefox and Squid - How to force the browser
to use proxy just like with IE?

Ben,
If you're on a MS network with AD, check out this link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/

Then go here:
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/mcs/FirefoxADM/ADM_Deploy.pdf

for info on how to use it. If I'd been more careful when I first
started
looking at this I'd have realized that you need not only the adm files
and
gpo set up, but you need to also add the vbs files as startup scripts,
whichever ones you need.

I just got this working a few minutes on Firefox 1.5 on *my* computer,
but
have not yet tested on normal user machines and logons. After setting
this
up I rebooted my machine and FF was LOCKED down as far as proxy
settings,
etc. This is cool! Now I can perhaps deploy Firefox as IE is falling
farther behind all the time. Unfortunately, I still have NS 7.2 out
there
all over the place....

You will also find an MSI package out there (as recent as FF 1.5 too) so
you
can push FF out with AD gpo...

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Benedek Frank [Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:54 AM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Firefox and Squid - How to force the browser to
use
proxy just like with IE?

Hi

We are using Squid, and in native mode, not transparent. All users are
forced to go through the Proxy via Windows Active Directory GPO. This is
good to set people who use IE to get through Proxy, but firefox users
are browsing happily without even hitting the Proxy server once.... :(

Is there a way that I can force all browsers to go through Proxy?

Thanks

Ben
Received on Tue Jan 10 2006 - 06:01:58 MST