Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings?

Posted by rjhackin on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Trying to understand why doesn't Chrome have its own proxy settings.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings? by adamkhrona on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:56PM (#2357748)

Chrome 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/

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings? by rjhackin on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:03PM (#2357761)

This is a useful link, this should come up on the top of search results, this never came up for some reason.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings? by eli on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:52PM (#2357739)

Pretty sure that's a best practice for Windows software.

IE's proxy settings are synonymous with Windows system-wide proxy settings.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings? by rjhackin on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:05PM (#2357769)

True, 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.

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