Final Installation Step: Configure Your Browser

The final action carried out by the setup program is to start Browser Spinach. At this point, Browser Spinach is available and running on your machine. The installation program arranges for Browser Spinach to automatically run when the machine is brought up. A new program group is also added under Programs, called Browser Spinach. In that program group reside the following programs:

Just one additional manual step remains: to make your browser aware of Browser Spinach. In the terminology of the browser vendors, Browser Spinach is a proxy server, through which browsers execute queries. To communicate with Browser Spinach, the browser must be directed to forward its queries to Browser Spinach, instead of communicating directly with the addressed web sites. Thus Browser Spinach should work with any browser that supports proxy servers. Below are the steps to configure the various supported versions of Navigator and Internet Explorer for use with Browser Spinach:

Netscape Navigator 4.x

  • From the
  • Edit pulldown menu, select Preferences.
  • On the left of the dialog box is a column of categories. Toward the bottom of this column is the Advanced category. Click on the Advanced category in order to make it the current category.
  • Expand the Advanced category by hitting the right-arrow key. Alternatively, click on the tiny plus-sign to the left of the Advanced category label. Subcategories like Cache and Proxies should now be displayed below the Advanced category label.
  • Click on the Proxies category in order to make it the current category.
  • Click on the Manual proxy configuration radio button.
  • Click on the View button.
  • Set HTTP to 127.0.0.1 (which tells Navigator that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine, as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
  • Immediately to the right, set Port to 38200.

Netscape Navigator 3.x

  • From the
  • Options pulldown menu, select Network Preferences.
  • Select the Proxies tab.
  • Click on the Manual Proxy Configuration check box.
  • Click on the View button.
  • Set HTTP Proxy to 127.0.0.1 (which tells Navigator that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine, as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
  • Immediately to the right, set Port to 38200.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x

  • From the View pulldown menu, select Internet Options.
  • Go to the Connection tab.
  • In the Proxy Server group of options, check the Access the Internet using a proxy server check box.
  • Warning: you must leave blank the Address and Port fields visible below the Access the Internet using a proxy server check box. (Setting these fields would establish Browser Spinach as a proxy server for all protocols, but Browser Spinach should only be a proxy for HTTP queries.)
  • Click the Advanced button.
  • For HTTP, set Address to 127.0.0.1 (which tells Explorer that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine, as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
  • Set Port to 38200.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x

  • From the Tools pulldown menu, select Internet Options.
  • Go to the Connections tab.
  • If you use DSL or your computer is on a local area network (LAN), then click on the LAN Settings button. Otherwise, in the Dial-up Settings group of options, select the connection through which you wish to determine whether Browser Spinach will be used. (If you are among the many users who only have one connection defined, then this connection will already be selected, so you don't need to do anything more for this step. If you have more than one connection and you want these settings to apply to them all, then you have to repeat the following steps for each of the connections.)
  • In the Dial-up Settings group of options, click the Settings button.
  • In the Proxy Server group of options, check the Use a proxy server check box.
  • Warning: you must leave blank the Address and Port fields visible below the Use a proxy server check box. (Setting these fields would establish Browser Spinach as a proxy server for all protocols, but Browser Spinach should only be a proxy for HTTP queries.)
  • Click the Advanced button.
  • For HTTP, set Address to 127.0.0.1 (which tells Explorer that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine, as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
  • Set Port to 38200.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x

  • From the View pulldown menu, select Options.
  • Go to the Connection tab.
  • In the Proxy Server group of options, check the Connect through a proxy server check box.
  • Click the Settings button.
  • Set the HTTP text field to 127.0.0.1 (which tells Explorer that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine, as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
  • Set Port, the text field immediately to the right to 38200.


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