# Quick Proxy Switcher

> Switch proxy without opening about:preferences

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/quick-proxy-switcher](https://chrome-stats.com/d/quick-proxy-switcher)

## Overview

- **ID:** `quick-proxy-switcher`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** andrei
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-03-10
- **First published:** 2025-03-09
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/quick-proxy-switcher/)

## Description

Sometimes I launch proxy on localhost, but most of the time I don't need it.

It is annoying to open about:prefereces, navigate to "Network Settings" and to click the box. To save these few seconds once in a while I wrote this extension, that allows me to do this with one click.

## Rankings

- #86,770 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `proxy`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/quick-proxy-switcher)