There is no UI option to enable a proxy; using a system-wide proxy is not always the preferred option. Having a UI access to set a browser-specific proxy, or use no proxy when there is one set system-wide is literally expected behaviour for cross-platform browsers, as well as necessary in a number of use cases, including web development scenarios, IT support scenarios, parenting scenarios.

Platform: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (assuming affects any OS)
Brave: latest (and before)

770 #1111

putt1ck on 6 Sep 2016

👍5

I have some commits ready to enable session-based proxy settings. Since there are still a bunch of electron related leaks it's quite unsafe to use for those with privacy requirements though.

A couple thoughts/options:

use chromium's behavior (point to the system-wide proxy config window)
wait to enable this until the leaks are resolved
add a warning prompt when adding a session-based proxy setting

joshuayabut on 28 Sep 2016

+1 from support : https://linkbubble.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/6072

alexwykoff on 19 Oct 2016

It may be worth looking into how Epic Privacy Browser does this. I really like how they implement this into their browser. https://www.epicbrowser.com/our-key-features.html

andrewcole50 on 19 Nov 2016

👍1

This feature is a necessity for me, would love to switch to Brave full time but no native proxy/network settings interface kills it

efemernyy on 28 Nov 2016

👍7

it would be great if brave has inbuild smart proxy switcher which could allow you to configure multiple proxies for various different sites and automatically use them when the site is visited.

dhiva on 26 Dec 2016

❤2

Having a configurable proxy option is a must. Having the possibility to configure multiple proxies and switch to them either by site list or by drop down menu would be icing on the cake.

Most organizations use a proxy for web browsing and many use multiple proxies.

SillonBono on 4 Jan 2017

👍2

I would like to add my support for this addition to the browser. I now use this browser for work, and it is a necessity to have a per application ability to support proxies, as system wide are just not appropriate for Devops type work. I look forward to this addition.

codfather on 10 Jan 2017

I'm not sure how much we've diverged from Electron, but we may be able to get this functionality by hooking into the sessions object
http://electron.atom.io/docs/api/session/#sessetproxyconfig-callback

cc: @bridiver

bsclifton on 7 Feb 2017

👍1

Wondered if there are any updates on this one at all?

Seems you may have a solution? but its been pushed back to v1.1 release.

mannp on 30 Jul 2017

+1 from community https://community.brave.com/t/proxy-totally-missing-or-only-ui/5943/2

srirambv on 17 Aug 2017

+1 for this being a show stopper for me using Brave. It seems unbelievable that a browser with the user's interests and privacy at heart wouldn't support this.

Colin-Mac-Donald on 28 Aug 2017

wouldn't

Not exactly; it's planned.

luixxiul on 28 Aug 2017

👍1

+1 need this

29e7e280-0d1c-4bba-98fe-f7cd3ca7500a on 6 Sep 2017

+1 this truly is important feature, please deliver on this ASAP

tomonova on 21 Sep 2017

Point to the system proxy is a dirty solution that almost all modern browsers do (good job Firefox, you're one of the few who is doing it in the right way). Hope Brave will imitate the Firefox behavior.

CapitanShinChan on 27 Sep 2017

or u can bundle a extension. i currently using proxy switcher.

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29e7e280-0d1c-4bba-98fe-f7cd3ca7500a on 27 Sep 2017

+1 Absolutely necessary feature. Brave will completely replace my Firefox usage once this is implemented.

JakRowan on 29 Sep 2017

👍8

+1 I also need this feature to finally get rid of Firefox and their recent introduced Cliqz support

Laomak on 18 Oct 2017

+1 I'll also be leaving Firefox for Brave when this is implemented.

dannwebb on 29 Oct 2017

Just throwing in my +1
Maybe consider a FoxyProxy style addon? I love how it's implemented in Firefox, though I'm not sure how it performs with respect to leaks.

DeesseFortuna on 8 Nov 2017

FoxyProxy style please!
Will be leaving firefox if this is planned!

mingrui on 22 Nov 2017

+1 This is a necessary feature for me.

msagansk on 6 Dec 2017

👍3

+1 I need this to move away from Firefox. I use a local socks proxy that tunnels traffic through ssh on a daily basis. So this is a deal killer for me.

The1stSword on 4 Jan 2018

👍3

Any progress on this? I'd love to use this browser in my corporate environment, but unfortunately, the proxy settings aren't used by brave somehow. Not sure how to describe this in more detail, in Chrome it works with the system settings.

bjoernbusch on 6 Feb 2018

👍4

What @bjoernbusch said. Additionally, Brave used to work fine a few weeks ago. Now it doesn't. Firefox and Chrome work fine by picking the system proxy setting.

perryizgr8 on 8 Feb 2018

Same issue with me; global proxy settings on Fedora 27 are not picked up by latest Brave release0.20.30.
Chrome and Firefox work fine with me as well.

evoerman on 8 Feb 2018

ok, so my problem is actually due to this: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/12959

When I go back to an older version, Brave works properly with my corporate proxy and I don't need to adjust settings.

bjoernbusch on 8 Feb 2018

👍1

I went back to the older version and Brave is now working with my corporate proxy as well! Can we please get this fixed on the latest version?

zaneschepke on 23 Feb 2018

I downloaded 0.20.27 and it was working until Brave auto-updated to 0.20.42. There is no way to disable these auto-updated? Now I get a connection attempt refused from all sites except my internal corporate site. New update does not work with my corporate proxy and I imagine most other corporate people have this same issue. I want to use this software but this is making it really hard..

zaneschepke on 26 Feb 2018

Installs Brave,
finds out there is no proxy-setting like Firefox has it,
uninstall Brave...

I'll be back later once this got sorted. Shame really, as I was actually excited to try this browser :(

And, no, please do NOT point to the system-wide proxy, I need to be able to have at least 1 browser that is not using the system proxy, but an alternative Socks5 connection to escape the local firewall.

kamaradski on 28 Feb 2018

👍6

I can't agree with @kamaradski more. This is mandatory for a daily driver for me- doubly so for my 'privacy-centric' browser,

blightwing on 20 Mar 2018

👍3

I can use a system proxy on Chrome and Firefox but not Brave. I want to move full time to Brave but I cannot since even all pages that should load via proxy come with an external IP address. I use Private Internet Access and a company Proxy application to connect and this is a deal breaker for me to use Brave fulltime

dougaitken on 21 Mar 2018

👍4

+1

a7777777v on 29 Mar 2018

+1. I want to switch full time, but this being broken is, as others have already said, a deal breaker.

scfcode on 2 Apr 2018

When does the dev will understand that you can't rely on the OS part to secure their app and you need to implement secure code and secure features direct in the application.
We don't care about system wide proxy which is totally bullshit on a windows 10 system or a mac OS system and maybe even some linux distros too. So just implement the code about proxying.
Plus is the only way that you can do split vpn traffic like mullvad is using.
Not everyone is using just a laptop and don't have any LAN traffic + you can't always trust your ISP, if you ever do actually.

When are you able to deliver it?

boistordu on 7 Apr 2018

I wanted to comment to +1 this as a crucial feature, but I would also like to address the nature of some of the feedback I see here.

I find that some of it is not really in the spirit of Github Community Guidelines (https://help.github.com/articles/github-community-guidelines/) or the nature of open-source un general. We're all here, even as non-developers, to see that Brave reaches its full potential. While this does prevent me from using Brave as my daily driver as well, I'm very grateful so far for the work that's been done. I have faith that they will take our feedback in all seriousness and will implement it when they can.

Want it to happen faster? Contribute to Brave: https://medium.com/margarytachepiga/how-to-contribute-to-brave-dbbe184631c3

jSadoski on 8 Apr 2018

❤1

+1

hieronymousch on 10 Apr 2018

Brave properly uses the system proxy on macOS when one is configured. However, when I then remove the system proxy, and other browsers automatically switch back to the regular connection, Brave stops working and reports: "The IP address is unreachable. This usually means that there is no route to the specified host or network."

nielspeen on 16 Apr 2018

@nielspeen That issue doesn't sound related to this feature request. You should open your own issue for that.

jSadoski on 16 Apr 2018

+1

charlierlee on 23 Apr 2018

+1

On a mac, while connected to corporate network using Cisco Anyconnect VPN, brave browser us usable for internal web pages only.

System wide pac-provided proxy does not work.

pepik on 24 Apr 2018

+1
same issue as pepik here...
FF has the following which I would need comparable to in Brave to use on corporate network
Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection -> Settings ->"Automatic proxy configuration URL:"

motorious1 on 4 May 2018

+1
same here - lack of proxy support discards Brave for me

Adiorz on 5 May 2018

👍4

+1

ecomaikgolf on 19 May 2018

+1?

Is this going to happen?

binchick-in on 2 Jun 2018

Rumour has it that the rewrite underway for v1 will include this feature (via Twitter). Probably won't be independent of the system proxy though, as they'll inherit the feature from the Chromium code base (my ideal is per-browser, though only for testing "kid-quality web filtering")

putt1ck on 2 Jun 2018

When we switch over to the new Chromium based UI (Brave Core), we should have the exact same behavior as Chrome/Chromium

I tested this on macOS and Windows 10 and it looks opening Proxy settings (under chrome://settings) simply opens up the system settings.

Is there a different UI exposed in Chrome that I'm missing? I didn't see anything under chrome://chrome-urls/. Maybe there are command line options?

bsclifton on 5 Jun 2018

this is a simple problem. We don't need a vpn proxy settings. We need an extension which will do the switching. Nobody is using the in-house windows proxy settings because it works poorly.

boistordu on 5 Jun 2018

+1
This is a show stopper for me.

beickhoff on 5 Jun 2018

I don't understand why they can't see as a primary function with this actual historic context.

boistordu on 5 Jun 2018

@boistordu it's not a simple problem given our current codebase (Muon, forked from Electron) and our current set of priorities (otherwise, we or a contributor would have finished it already).

If you're not using Brave, what is your solution? Are you using Chrome with an extension?

bsclifton on 5 Jun 2018

Firefox

CapitanShinChan on 5 Jun 2018

It’s such a pain - behind office firewall and cannot use Brave at all there
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mplungjan on 5 Jun 2018

Currently using Firefox

beickhoff on 5 Jun 2018

@bsclifton yes I'm using, depending of the machine, chromium, chrome or firefox. All with an extension which is here: https://github.com/FelisCatus/SwitchyOmega which is available on every platform and since the code is available then we can maybe translate the needed part for your browser.

boistordu on 5 Jun 2018

👍2

+1

tofke on 10 Jun 2018

This issue will not apply to brave-core (aka chromium-fork). Still would be good to get relief sooner but brave-core is coming up fast and we will switch desktop over to it from Muon ASAP.