Proxy SwitchyOmega Setup: ZeroOmega, Auto Switch and Proxies by Country

No: SwitchyOmega is disabled in current Chrome. Use ZeroOmega (listed as "Proxy SwitchyOmega 3 (ZeroOmega)"), which imports old SwitchyOmega backups. Chrome phased out Manifest V2 extensions such as SwitchyOmega on this schedule (Chrome's timeline):

The providers that work best with SwitchyOmega for viewing sites from other countries give you an HTTP endpoint with a login, the country and city in the username, and sticky sessions; ProxyField has all three on one gateway, gate.proxyfield.io:7000, with 412M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries and 21,000+ cities, from $1.95/GB. SwitchyOmega itself works with any HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy, so hold any provider, ours included, to these six points; the third column says where to check each one before you pay:

1. Install ZeroOmega from the Chrome Web Store, Firefox Add-ons or Edge Add-ons and pin its icon. Skip the guide it offers on first run, or follow it.

2. Open its options (right-click the icon → Options) and select New profile.
3. Name the profile, for example ProxyField New York, choose Proxy Profile, and select Create.

4. In the (default) row of Proxy servers, set Protocol to HTTP, Server to gate.proxyfield.io and Port to 7000.

5. Select the lock icon at the end of the row, enter your ProxyField username (with the location, such as <login>-country-us-city-new_york) and password, and select Save changes.
6. Select Apply changes in the left menu.
7. Click the toolbar icon and choose ProxyField New York. Load https://api.ipify.org: it shows the proxy's IP.

The toolbar menu has four kinds of entries: [Direct] (no proxy), [System Proxy] (hand control back to the system settings), your Proxy Profiles (everything through that proxy) and your Switch Profiles (per-site rules).

Create one Proxy Profile per location or session you use; each differs only in the username, and the configurator in your account generates each line:

Region, session and session time go in the same username: -region-<region>, -session-<id> and -ttl-<seconds> (30 to 129,600 seconds, 20 minutes by default), as in <login>-country-us-region-new_york-city-new_york-session-he9f2qga-ttl-600; every part after the login is optional. Residential is the default; add -mobile after the login for mobile IPs: <login>-mobile-country-us. There is no practical limit on how many profiles you create, and all of them draw on one ProxyField balance: you pay for the gigabytes used, not per profile.

An Auto Switch profile (a Switch Profile) sends the sites you list through the proxy and everything else direct, in 5 steps; with ProxyField only those sites use traffic, from $2.95/GB for 1 GB.

1. Select New profile, choose Switch Profile, name it Auto, and select Create.
2. Add a rule: condition type Host wildcard, condition *.example.com, profile ProxyField New York.
3. Add more rules as needed, one per site, for example *.example.co.uk → your UK profile.
4. Set the Default row to [Direct], then Apply changes. Rules are checked top to bottom, the first matching rule wins, and Default takes every site no rule matches.
5. Choose Auto from the toolbar icon. Choosing the proxy profile itself would send every site through the proxy.

Set Protocol to SOCKS5 with the same server, gate.proxyfield.io. In Chrome, though, no extension can send a username and password to a SOCKS5 proxy: "SOCKS Authentication is not implemented in Chrome and therefore cannot be done in SwitchyOmega" (SwitchyOmega FAQ). A SOCKS5 profile in Chrome therefore works only with your IP on the allowlist in your ProxyField account, and its Port is then the port you set up in the dashboard, not 7000: with the IP allowlist, the product, location and session are set per port in the dashboard. Where a client can send a login, SOCKS5 takes the same username and password on port 7000. Use HTTP profiles for logins in Chrome. Firefox can sign in to SOCKS5 proxies; there, FoxyProxy takes a SOCKS5 proxy with a username and password. More on the protocol: SOCKS5 proxies.

SwitchyOmega doesn't rotate proxies; the gateway does. A username without a session gives a new IP on every request, which suits checks of public pages. A session id in the username keeps one IP for 30 s to 36 h (presets 1, 5, 10, 30 min, 1, 3, 6 h), which suits a logged-in site. To change IP on purpose, switch to another profile or start a new session.

ZeroOmega keeps profiles in the browser's extension storage on that computer. To move them, open Import/Export in the options, select Generate backup file, and restore the file on the other browser with Restore from file. The backup contains your proxy credentials, so store it safely.

1. Choose the profile in the toolbar and load https://api.ipify.org: the exit IP, not yours.
2. Load https://ipinfo.io/json for the IP's city and country; it should match the profile.
3. With Auto Switch, the toolbar icon shows which profile served the current tab.
4. To test proxy lines before you add them, use the proxy checker.

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.

Only one extension can control Chrome's proxy at a time: disable other proxy extensions while you use ZeroOmega. Other switchers are compared on proxy switcher setup, and Chrome's own proxy options on proxy settings in Chrome.

Use ProxyField for lawful work within our acceptable use policy. A browser proxy is not a VPN: it moves only the browser's traffic (proxy vs VPN).

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