Chromebook Proxy Settings

1. Select the time in the bottom-right corner, then the Settings gear.

2. Open Network, select Wi-Fi (or Ethernet), and select the network you are connected to.

3. Open the Proxy section. If the network is shared with other users of the Chromebook, turn on Allow proxies for shared networks first. If the section is greyed out on a school or work Chromebook, the administrator's policy has locked it.
4. Set Connection type to Manual proxy configuration. You see the host and port fields for each protocol, and a list of hosts that skip the proxy.

5. Enter gate.proxyfield.io in HTTP proxy and 7000 as the port (with the IP allowlist, the port you set up in the dashboard), and turn on Use the same proxy for all protocols. There is no field for a username or password; that is expected.
6. Add localhost, 127.0.0.1 to the hosts that skip the proxy, then save.
7. Open Chrome and load https://api.ipify.org. Chrome shows a sign-in box for the proxy: enter your ProxyField username, such as <login>-country-us, and your password. The page then shows the proxy's IP, not yours. With your network's IP on the allowlist, no box appears and the page shows the proxy's IP at once.

The setting belongs to that network only. On another Wi-Fi network, the Chromebook connects directly until you repeat the steps there.

ChromeOS has no username or password field in its proxy form. Chrome "will not use any credentials embedded in the proxy settings" (Chromium proxy docs), so the sign-in box is the only way to enter them. It appears the first time a page needs the proxy, and ChromeOS keeps the username and password in your profile's authentication cache (Google's ChromeOS proxy help).

• Username and password work on any network and carry the location: <login>-country-us for a US IP, <login>-country-us-city-new_york for New York.
• IP allowlist skips the sign-in box. Add the public IP of your home or office network in your ProxyField account, and enter the port you set up in the dashboard instead of 7000. It only works on that network: on a café or phone hotspot, the Chromebook's public IP changes and the gateway rejects it.

System services such as updates, Google Play downloads and installing Linux "do not have access to the usernames and passwords" (Google's ChromeOS proxy help). If they fail behind a password-protected proxy, use the IP allowlist, or switch the proxy off while they run.

• Chrome and web apps: yes.
• Android apps: only if the app chooses to; check each app.
• Linux apps (Crostini): no, not by default; set the proxy in the Linux terminal.

export http_proxy="http://<login>:<password>@gate.proxyfield.io:7000"
export https_proxy="$http_proxy"
curl https://api.ipify.org

curl -x "socks5h://<login>-country-us:<password>@gate.proxyfield.io:7000" https://api.ipify.org

Use the HTTP proxy field. ChromeOS also has a SOCKS host field, but "no authentication methods are supported for SOCKSv5 in Chrome", and none for SOCKSv4 (Chromium proxy docs), so SOCKS5 works only with the IP allowlist: enter gate.proxyfield.io in SOCKS host with the port you set up in the dashboard. Tools that send a SOCKS5 username and password use gate.proxyfield.io:7000. For tools that need SOCKS5, see SOCKS5 proxies.

A residential proxy service works for ad checks on a Chromebook when it takes a username and password over HTTP (Chrome has no SOCKS5 login), targets country and city, and keeps one IP for a whole check. ProxyField does all three: gate.proxyfield.io:7000 over HTTP with a login, country, region and city in the username, sticky sessions from 30 s to 36 h, 412M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries and 21,000+ cities, from the Easy Trial at 1 GB for $2.95.

1. Load https://api.ipify.org in Chrome: it shows the exit IP.
2. Load https://ipinfo.io/json to see the IP's city and country; it should match the location in your username.
3. Reload twice: with a rotating username, the IP changes on every request. For one IP during a session, use a sticky session of 30 s to 36 h (presets 1, 5, 10, 30 min, 1, 3, 6 h).
4. To test a proxy line before you enter it, use the proxy checker.

Open Settings → Network, select the network, open Proxy and set Connection type to Direct Internet connection. The Chromebook connects without the proxy at once. Do it for each network where you set one.

On a Chromebook managed by a school or a company, the administrator sets the network and proxy policy, and the proxy fields are often locked. Ask the administrator; ProxyField is for devices and networks you are allowed to configure.

Gateway error messages: 407 Proxy Authentication Required for a wrong login or password, an IP not on the allowlist or a malformed location, 402 Payment Required when no traffic is left and 502 Bad Gateway when no exit could be connected; a restricted site gets no separate response, and a 403 comes from the site itself. Status codes are explained in proxy errors. Our 24/7 live chat helps with setup and integration.

A proxy changes the IP and location the sites see. It is not a VPN: it does not encrypt the connection by itself, and it carries web traffic, not every packet (proxy vs VPN). Use ProxyField for lawful work within our acceptable use policy.

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