and it generally applies to every SW "issue".
Before sitting down and starting a project/hack, check if it does not yet exist.
This very instance of this insight has its origin in me no longer wanting to manually switch the FireFox proxy, whenever I switched from my home directy internet connectivity (wifi+dsl) to the company VPN, where I have to use a proxy.
Actually I wanted to do some little hack to automatically determine, if the VPN was on, and then magically using the company proxy...
...but this here is quite sufficient: the ProxyButton extension.
Gives you a little button on the toolbar to switch from direct to proxy...
Read the FAQ style intro here once you installed it.
PS: if anyone feels the vpn-autodetect-thingy feels worthwhile (or has already been done), just leave a comment...
Subscribe
No comments:
Post a Comment