One of the most beautiful aspects of OS X is the support for system wide proxy settings. Configure a proxy in the system preferences, and just about everything uses it automagically. Unforunately, Firefox (and Thunderbird, or so I hear), doesn’t make use of this functionality, meaning you have to configure your proxy twice.
The solution to this is really quite simple. Pick up a copy of System Proxy, and you’ll see a new check box in the Firefox proxy settings: “Copy proxy settings from OS X”. So long as that’s checked, Ff will automatically use whatever system settings are in place.
Happy surfing!
Edit 2008-08-28: It would appear that System Proxy only updates the Ff settings when the browser is first loaded. Or possibly when new windows are openned. Therefore, changes to system-wide settings made while the browser is running may not be reflected.
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