the tool bar spell check! its awesome. I love Firefox. took a little getting used to but sooooooo worth it.


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Go to this link below
Shows how to set it up and even has visuals

most of the free ones don't allow to access sites which require to log in such as TER or e-mail accounts. More importantly don't access your bank/credit card account sites using a proxy. Such sites use https and all communication with them is encrypted. So there is no reason to use a proxy for most of the times. But if you use a proxy, the communication between your computer and proxy is in plain text! The proxy communicates with your bank/credit card company over a secure channel on behalf of you while receiving/giving the same data with your computer with no encryption.

You can easily check if a proxy is hiding your IP address. Without using the proxy visit

http://www.ip-adress.com/

and check your IP address, location etc. Then do the same with the proxy. The results from two must be very different.

Hiding tracks is a different issue than hiding IP address. If the proxy isn't using encryption your ISP/company can still monitor the contents of your browsing. But the other site you're communicating with through a proxy can't track down your IP address, ISP and geographic location.