February 2019
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On Linux, when you attempt to set Google Chrome's proxy options, you may encounter an error, as shown here:
When running Google Chrome under a supported desktop environment, the system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not supported or there was a problem launching your system configuration.But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man google-chrome-stable for more information on flags and environment variables.
In such cases, you can either specify the proxy server via a command-line argument, or by editing the .desktop file that was created when Chrome/Chromium was installed.
The command-line argument to start Google Chrome with a specific proxy is:
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