SwitchyOmega

SwitchyOmega is a powerful and reliable proxy manager that works with many popular browsers.

Follow these steps to integrate Oxylabs Datacenter Proxies:

Step 1. Get the plugin and install it. For Chrome, click here. For Firefox, click here.

Step 2. Open SwitchyOmega Options.

SwitchyOmega options

Step 3. Click +New profile.

Create new profile

Step 4. Give this new profile a name, choose Proxy Profile type, and click Create.

Create a profile

Step 5. Fill in the details:

Connection type: HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5

Server: dc.oxylabs.io

Port: 8001

You can also specify geo-location, for example, the US, within the user authentication string: user-USERNAME-country-US:PASSWORD. Check our documentation for more details.

Step 6. Click the lock icon on the right. Fill in the details for Proxy Authentication:

Proxy user username: user-username

Proxy user password: password

Make sure you've added the user- part before your username.

Click Save changes.

Step 7. Click Apply changes.

Apply changes

Step 8. Click on the SwitchyOmega icon and choose your newly configured proxy.

That's it! You are now ready to use SwitchyOmega with Datacenter Proxies.

Find the original SwitchyOmega integration blog post here.

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