A profile is one proxy. Everything else in the extension — modes, rules, containers, health checks — points at a profile, so this is the first tab you use.
Profiles live on the Profiles tab in the extension’s options. There is no limit on how many you keep.
Adding a proxy
Press Add and fill in the form. Only four fields are required:
The rest are optional:
- Username / password — for proxies that require authentication. See Credentials below.
- Notes — free text, yours to use.
- Colour tag — a dot on the row, for telling groups apart at a glance.
- Favourite — starred profiles sort to the top of the popup.
- Remote DNS — resolve hostnames at the proxy rather than locally. On by default for SOCKS5, because resolving locally is exactly what leaks the name you are trying to hide.
- Failover target — the profile to switch to if a health check finds this one unreachable.
Credentials
Passwords are stored in your browser’s local extension storage and are never shown back to you. The form shows an empty password field even for a profile that has one; typing into it replaces the stored value, leaving it alone keeps it.
The same rule holds everywhere else: passwords are redacted from every log line, excluded from the state the interface reads, and left out of exports unless you explicitly ask for them.
SOCKS5 credentials do not work on Chrome or Edge. Chrome’s proxy API accepts a SOCKS5 server but provides no way to authenticate to it, so a username and password on a SOCKS5 profile are simply ignored by the browser.The extension says so on the profile itself rather than storing credentials that silently do nothing. Firefox honours SOCKS5 authentication normally. HTTP and HTTPS proxy authentication works on every browser.
Finding a profile
Three controls sit above the list:
- Search matches the name and the host.
- Scheme filter narrows to one of the five schemes.
- Sort — manual order, name, newest, or recently updated.
Manual order is the order you arranged by hand, and it is what the popup uses. The other sorts change only what you are looking at.
Duplicate and delete
Duplicate copies every field into a new profile, so a proxy that differs only in port or credentials takes one edit instead of six. A duplicate is always an ordinary local profile, even when the original mirrored a ProxyJam order.
Delete asks first, and cannot be undone. Rules pointing at a deleted profile are reported rather than silently re-routed, and container assignments pointing at it are dropped.
Switching to a profile
Use the popup. Click the toolbar icon and pick a profile to send all traffic through it, or pick Direct, Auto, or System. Your choice survives a browser restart. 
