It may occur on Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox and especially on Google Chrome. It always says “Resolving proxy…” in the lower-left of the Chrome window and take a while to load any website.
The issue is they are configured to access the internet via a web proxy (Automatically detect settings in the LAN settings). To fix this, we need to change the setting to improve your internet connection speed.
Here you go.
Steps to change proxy setting for Chrome and IE on Windows
- 1. Open the Internet Options box
+ On Google Chrome: click on the wrench icon on the Google Chrome toolbar -> click Options -> go to the Under the Hood -> click on Change proxy settings… button
Google Chrome Change Proxy Settings
+ On Internet Explorer (ex: 7): Go to Tools -> Internet options
IE Tool Internet Options
then click on the Connections tab
- 2. Click on LAN settings button in the Internet Properties box
Internet properties LAN settings
- 3. Deselect the “Automatically detect settings” check box.
Internet Properties Automatically detect settings
- 4. Click OK and OK button
- 5. Restart browser
That’s all. Few minutes to make your browsers browse faster 🙂
