Profiles and proxies

What is a profile?

A profile is one browser profile with its own sign-ins: one account per provider, side by side with every other profile. A second Claude or Notion account goes in a profile of its own. On the Profiles page each profile is a row; its own page holds its providers, notes and a Proxy card. An AI connected through AkiMCP can create, rename and set up a profile too, and it changes a proxy, keeps a profile out of handoffs or removes one only when you asked for that in its chat.

How do I give a profile its own proxy?

On the profile's page, the Proxy card above the providers takes a type (HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5), a host and a port. Save keeps it, and the profile's Chrome uses it from its next start; Remove takes it away, also from the next start.

• It never falls back to a direct connection: when the proxy is down, the window shows Chrome's error page, not your own address.
• AIObox keeps no proxy password. A proxy that asks for one gets it from Chrome's own sign-in box in the window; a SOCKS5 proxy cannot take a password.

How do I know the running Chrome uses it?

The card reads it from the Chrome running now, never from the setting alone: In use, Not in use (that Chrome started before the setting, or AkiMCP started it, which does not use AIObox's proxy), still through a proxy after Remove, or an extension that sets the proxy itself. When they differ, a gold line offers Restart profile…. It names what each window would lose, stops the macro chains and handoffs in them, and reopens the same windows with the same handles through the new setting, saving them to Restore windows first so a failed reopen loses none.

What does Check show?

Check asks aiobox.app which address and country a request through the proxy comes from, and aiobox.app keeps nothing. It asks from inside the running Chrome, without a page script, or through the proxy from AIObox when that Chrome is stopped, and it also runs each time AIObox connects to the profile's Chrome. The answer stays in memory only. Details shows everything AIObox knows, read only: the setting, the running Chrome and the last check with its exit address, IPv4 or IPv6, country and the data center that answered.

Where do I see every proxy?

Settings › Proxies lists every profile's proxy with its status, its last check, Check and Restart profile…, plus Check all. A gold warning says when two profiles leave through the same address, since sites can link those accounts. A profile with a proxy shows a chip with its exit country, or a globe before its first check, in the sidebar, on its row in Profiles and in its panel header beside the window handle. Its tooltip says what the proxy is doing and never names the address.

What does a proxy not cover?

• WebRTC: a page can still read this computer's own address past the proxy.
• One setting covers the whole profile; there is no proxy per site.
• Time zone and language stay as they are.