Tools

How to Use Your Proxy Services with Microsoft Edge?

  1. Set up a socks5 proxy
  2. Install and config Privoxy
  3. Set system proxy

Set up a socks5 proxy

Install and config Privoxy

If you are running a socks5 proxy server rather than an http proxy server, you will have to forward all http traffic to it. I would recommend Privoxy as it does a good job for it.

  • Download and install Privoxy.
  • Find its config.txt file in the directory where it was installed.
  • Add this line to it, suppose your socks5 proxy is running on port 1080:
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    forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:1080 .
    Then you are able to use the HTTP or HTTPS proxy at 127.0.0.1:8118, as Privoxy listens 127.0.0.1 and the port 8118 by default.

If you get the error Fatal error: init_error_log():can't open logfile:, here is a workaround:

  1. Open the config.txt file with Notepad++ as administrator
  2. Comment out the log file location setting, by adding a # at the start of the line: #logfile privoxy.log
  3. Save
  4. Start Privoxy

Set system proxy