How i can set Browservice as proxy

[mopskarel]

Hi, before some time i was trying to set Browservice in Pale Moon as a proxy, i tried to set more things in proxy settings but it didnt work. I need to make that every page i will open will be opened in 127.0.0.1:8080/goto/. Is there any way how to make it? Thanks.

[andyprough]

Hi, before some time i was trying to set Browservice in Pale Moon as a proxy, i tried to set more things in proxy settings but it didnt work. I need to make that every page i will open will be opened in 127.0.0.1:8080/goto/. Is there any way how to make it? Thanks.

I don't understand your question. Did you read my Browservice installation instructions here:
viewtopic.php?p=258583#p258583

And did you read my instructions on making /goto/ bookmarks here:
viewtopic.php?p=258584#p258584

Are you saying that all pages should be opened in a Browservice tab? [Editing out material here based on my earlier misunderstanding of the OP's question.]

[mopskarel]

Hi, before some time i was trying to set Browservice in Pale Moon as a proxy, i tried to set more things in proxy settings but it didnt work. I need to make that every page i will open will be opened in 127.0.0.1:8080/goto/. Is there any way how to make it? Thanks.

Are you saying that all pages should be opened in a Browservice tab? If you are going to do that, you would be much better off just using a chromium-based browser. Using Pale Moon to do all browsing in Browservice tabs would give you extremely poor performance and probably very bad security.

Yes, i want to forward every page i open to Browservice. I want to have UI customizability of Pale Moon. I have browservice address bar disabled to make it looking better, but without that i need to use search bar instead of location bar (That i cant download with addres bar disabled is another thing...). That will also make possible to search with it. Except there is no right mouse button context menu and this it is working good.

[andyprough]

Yes, i want to forward every page i open to Browservice. I want to have UI customizability of Pale Moon. I have browservice address bar disabled to make it looking better, but without that i need to use search bar instead of location bar (That i cant download with addres bar disabled is another thing...). That will also make possible to search with it. Except there is no right mouse button context menu and this it is working good.

[Editing out material here based on my earlier misunderstanding of the OP's question.]

[mopskarel]

Sounds absolutely awful. Good luck. I doubt anyone here would be interested in the slightest to try to help, but you never know.

Why awful? You know that Gonana just cant render everything in these days. I only need to make everything forwarded to it, nothing more. You made that it will open from bookmark, but having more different engines in one browser is even worster i think. Also, what when you will open that page from some link? SubWebView is also good for it, but its unusably slow (As a example, opening youtube video from google). On a Core2 computer, in pale moon youtube loads unusably slow.

[Moonchild]

If you're going to use browservice for everything, you should just use a Blink-based browser. It's pointless to have pages you can't properly interact with unless you are completely without otherwise... How a windowframe looks can't be that important, can it?

[mopskarel]

How a windowframe looks can't be that important, can it?

For me it is, i even noticed that smooth tabs. But it is mainly a experiment than something for normal using.

[andyprough]

You know that Gonana just cant render everything in these days.

Renders just about everything I need. I don't think I've had the need for Browservice more than a couple times since I wrote those instructions.

Maybe you could try the URL Rewriter extension? I've never tried doing a global URL rewrite in that extension, but it may be possible. The better way would be to figure out the url's where you really need help, and see if you could make Browservice bookmarks and URL Rewriter rules for those, and visit everything else in a regular Pale Moon tab.

I wouldn't use Browservice tabs for any kind of banking or shopping or anything involving money or other important business. You have almost nothing in the way of security I don't think, other than any basic security features built into chromium, and no way to configure security settings or to use security extensions. Once you are in the Browservice tab, none of your Pale Moon security settings or security extensions will apply at all to anything you are doing. Might want to use a really strong OS-level VPN with end-to-end encryption and security features, like ProtonVPN or something.

[mopskarel]

Maybe you could try the URL Rewriter extension? I've never tried doing a global URL rewrite in that extension, but it may be possible. The better way would be to figure out the url's where you really need help, and see if you could make Browservice bookmarks and URL Rewriter rules for those, and visit everything else in a regular Pale Moon tab.

Thanks, i tried it, but if i didnt do something wrong there was possible to redirect only main page, when i opened a youtube video from google it didnt work. But at least something. On slow computers i have problem with youtube, and that dropbox is broken.

[andyprough]

On slow computers i have problem with youtube, and that dropbox is broken.

Oh, now I see what you are trying to do, you are using Browservice as it was meant to be used on old, slow computers, and you want to use Pale Moon as the front-end instead of an ancient version of Firefox or of Internet Explorer. Ok, that's reasonable.

I don't know how to make the URL changes except for using URL Rewriter - probably someone else here does know. On URL Rewriter, these two rules seem to be working for basic redirection for me right now (see attached). You'll probably have to play around with them quite a bit, and might have to write multiple rules for different domain levels such as .com, .org, etc.

https rule:

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http rule:

2025-05-31_15-46.png

If you need to understand more about how URL Rewriter works, you may want to start by reading through a thread where we were exploring its options a couple years ago: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28107

[mopskarel]

Oh, now I see what you are trying to do, you are using Browservice as it was meant to be used on old, slow computers, and you want to use Pale Moon as the front-end instead of an ancient version of Firefox or of Internet Explorer. Ok, that's reasonable.

In this post i wanted to use it on one pc, as you thinked firstly (i know, it really is a bad idea, for this reason is much better marble with echelon). But yes, that i want to do too, but, unfortunatelly Pale Moon is too slow for computers where browservice should be used (other modern browsers won´t even loadthere), maximally on some pentium 4. I want to use it on my Pentium 3 500 MHz laptop with 64 MB RAM, where it isnt enought powerfull to make pale moon running usably, there worked maximally firefox 2 (maybe i will try to run 4 sometime). But it would be good to have a very lightweight version of Pale Moon, in wich will be possible to render only what browservice needs.
I now tried again to make youtube redirecting, now videos are redirecting also but everytime to same link.

[adoxa]

You need to use $1 in the redirect, not *.

[mopskarel]

You need to use $1 in the redirect, not *.

Thanks, now it works.

[mopskarel]

https rule:
2025-05-31_15-47.png

http rule:
2025-05-31_15-46.png

When i set values wich you have on pictures, it didnt do anything when i clicked save.

[andyprough]

When i set values wich you have on pictures, it didnt do anything when i clicked save.

Might not be able to set global rules for all websites effectively then, URL Rewriter may not be the tool you need. If I get time in the next couple of days I'll see if I could find a rule that would be more helpful.

[mopskarel]

Might not be able to set global rules for all websites effectively then, URL Rewriter may not be the tool you need. If I get time in the next couple of days I'll see if I could find a rule that would be more helpful.

Ok, thanks, but if you dont want you dont need to, im not sure if i will use it

[andyprough]

These two worked for me for .org domains. Might have to do some redirects for .com, .net, etc:

http_org.jpg

https_org.jpg

[adoxa]

If you want to redirect everything use Wildcard:

Description: Everything
Include Pattern: *
Exclude Pattern: http://127*
Redirect To: http://127.0.0.1:8080/goto/$1

That will include the protocol in the redirect; if you don't want that switch to Regular Expression:

Include Pattern: https?://(.*)
Exclude Pattern: http://127.*
Redirect To: http://127.0.0.1:8080/goto/$1

[mopskarel]

If you want to redirect everything use Wildcard:

Description: Everything
Include Pattern: *
Exclude Pattern: http://127*
Redirect To: http://127.0.0.1:8080/goto/$1

That will include the protocol in the redirect; if you don't want that switch to Regular Expression:

Include Pattern: https?://(.*)
Exclude Pattern: http://127.*
Redirect To: http://127.0.0.1:8080/goto/$1

Ok, thanks, i will try

[andyprough]

If you want to redirect everything use Wildcard:

Description: Everything
Include Pattern: *
Exclude Pattern: http://127*
Redirect To: http://127.0.0.1:8080/goto/$1

That will include the protocol in the redirect; if you don't want that switch to Regular Expression:

Include Pattern: https?://(.*)
Exclude Pattern: http://127.*
Redirect To: http://127.0.0.1:8080/goto/$1

Yup, can confirm that works - thanks adoxa!