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Toggling Proxy settings quickly with Pentadactyl and Firefox

Posted on Jan 9, 2012
If you use the excellent Pentadactyl plugin for Firefox to get vim super-powers to the browser, here is a quick and painless way to toggle between a direct connection to the internet or using the default proxy settings. Add this to your ~/.pentadactylrc
command proxy -nargs=1 :set! network.proxy.type=<args>
nmap up :proxy 1<CR>
nmap np :proxy 0<CR>
Now pressing up (Use Proxy) will enable Manual Proxy Settings while pressing np (No Proxy) will use Direct Connection. network.proxy.type can take other values which might be suited to your setup. You can change the key bindings too.