Configuring Independent Proxy for Google Chrome

Today I’m going to show you on how to use a custom Proxy for Google chrome. This may be known by you guys already.. but, still there are some people; who never knew that this was there to help them. The reason, which I came across with this tutorial because, some people want to use a custom proxy for chrome without importing settings from Internet Explorer.

Also, Google Chrome doesn’t provide a user interface (UI) to enable or disable proxy server settings. Indeed, Google Chrome is sharing Internet Properties settings (inetcpl.cpl, a Control Panel item that appears as Internet Options) with Internet Explorer.

E.g.: Google Chrome uses proxy server if Internet Explorer is using proxy server; both IE and Google Chrome is sharing the same proxy server settings. If I disable proxy server in Internet Properties, I can’t use IE7 to read Gmail via proxy server too.

So, how to force Google Chrome to ignore proxy server settings defined for IE7?

I thought, I would have to download Google Chrome source code and customize it. But luckily, there is a ready-made option switch called –proxy-server to define proxy server independently for Google Chrome.

E.g: –proxy-server overwrites Google Chrome default behaviour of sharing proxy server settings with Internet Explorer.

So, I right click the Google Chrome shortcut (which displays on desktop) and add –proxy-server= to chrome.exe under the tab “Target” in order to forcibly disable Google Chrome proxy server settings, while still allows Internet Explorer to surf Internet via it’s settings (note: chrome proxies will not invole here…)… See below images for clear reference.

Default (before the change) :

"C:\Program Files\.......chrome.exe" "--proxy-server=your.proxy.server.IP:port"

Default (before the change) :

"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "--proxy-server=10.58.16.206:3128"

Configuring Independent proxy on Windows 7

Default (before the change) :

"C:\Users\azkerm\....Crome\Application\chrome.exe --proxy-server=your.proxy.server.IP:port"

Default (before the change) :

"C:\Users\azkerm\....Crome\Application\chrome.exe --proxy-server=10.58.16.206:3128"

Note: Do not use the ” “ marks as used in windows XP. Instead leave a space after chrome.exe & start adding the proxy server.