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Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser

From Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser
Date 2025-08-23 17:14 +0000
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:11:10 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote :


> Turns out I didn't need to use FreeCap to proxify Chromium web browsers.

UPDATE ON FREE REGISTRATION-FREE AD-FREE PROXIFIERS:

Some programs need proxifiers (like FreeCap, which I used for a week).
 a. Mozilla browsers have their own proxy controls
 b. Chromium browsers use the Windows proxy defaults
 c. But many programs use neither

For those programs which need proxifiers, I found a better proxifier.
 A. FreeeCap
 B. SocksCap64

FreeCap is lightweight and still works for basic SOCKS4/5 or HTTP proxying,
but it's frozen in time while SocksCap64 has been updated more recently.
 <https://sourceforge.net/projects/sockscap64/>
 Actively maintained (though updates are infrequent)
 SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, and Shadowsocks; supports both TCP & UDP
 "SocksCap64 is an easy and a beautiful way to let the programs
  you want to work through a specific SOCKS proxy server,
  even if your applications don't have such an option."

SocksCap64 is the more modern, feature-rich choice, with broader protocol
support, UDP handling, and better compatibility with current Windows.
 <https://netactuate.dl.sourceforge.net/project/sockscap64/SocksCap64-setup-3.6.exe>
 Name: SocksCap64-setup-3.6.exe
 Size: 6193115 bytes (6047 KiB)
 SHA256: B2DA49EC9A2702CFD7625D3F152AF98A4C8E3E155DAB78686962BB3DF1F76825

Having only used proxies for a short time, my current advice is:
 1. For Chromium browsers, use the script I wrote to sync to Windows
 2. For Mozilla browsers, use their own GUIs (or FoxyProxy's GUI)
 3. For most other apps, use a proxifier such as SocksCap64/FreeCap are

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Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-29 02:25 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-07-29 08:38 -0500
    Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-29 22:41 +0000
      Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-30 05:42 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-30 21:01 +0000
          Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-01 02:42 +0000
            Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-07 03:31 +0000
              Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-09 02:57 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-09 19:35 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-12 20:13 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-18 00:20 +0000
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                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-18 19:10 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 11:00 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 15:17 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-20 18:27 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-21 04:11 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-22 09:45 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 17:14 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-24 14:54 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: DIY build your own lightweight chromium-based privacy web browser Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-29 05:41 +0000
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