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I was using Chrome normally then saw this message The proxy server is refusing connections which I didn't understand what it means, so I tried a few websites then tried Firefox and also IE but none of them worked and they showed the same message. TOR browser worked perfectly, so I tried the 3 browsers again without luck, then I opened Internet options and found this box checked Use a proxy server for your LAN... which I don't remember doing because I don't use a proxy, so I unchecked it and the internet worked again.

What can change this setting? And how to prevent it from happening again? "The proxy server is refusing connections"

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Browsers no longer use their own proxy settings, instead they use the system ones. For example: if you get opera 12.0, you can set its proxy independently of windows/other browsers. The system remains directly connected while Opera12 can use a proxy. Current FF/Opera/Chrome use the windows system to set their proxy...which is very bad. So any of them altering settings may affect all of them (+ other applications).

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