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I am currently jumping around from environments that don't use proxy servers, to those that do.

This is kinda painful, in that I need to make a bunch of changes to change modes:

• Change Browser Config
• Change IM Config
• Setup /etc/hosts alias to point mail servers to localhost, and run ssh port forwarding to get through the proxy
• maven.proxy.host / maven.proxy.port
• ... insert any other app that needs to get out ...

Why isn't there a setting in the OS that just lets you configure the proxy GLOBALLY!