Thanks for the reply.
Well, I use Privoxy, a locally running proxy that can do all kinds of ad-blocking, javascript cleansing, and a whole slew of other things. I also use Little Snitch, a program that monitors attempts at outgoing network connections (to see if programs are trying to phone home, etc.). I set up Privoxy as my HTTP and and HTTPS proxy. I also tell Little Snitch to permanently enable connections from Privoxy on ports 80 and 443 to any hosts. Now, if some random program attempts to phone home using HTTP(S) on port 80, this will go through without warning since it will go through Privoxy. If I were able to only enable the proxy for Safari, the random program would not go through Privoxy, and Little Snitch would warn me.
Hopefully, that made sense. I realize that this sounds a bit paranoid, but hey, I never claimed to be altogether normal 🙂.
I am using Firefox with its own proxy configuration as we speak, and the latest builds of Camino also allow overriding of system proxy preferences. I was mostly just curious if this was possible with Safari.
