Surf Anonymously using Proxy settings

Sometimes while surfing on internet, firewall or other settings would have blocked you to visit to certain sites in your company or  in any other institutes. One solution to this problem is to use the proxy servers which lets you to hide your original ip address and hide your identity.Just knowing the proxy address isn't  enough, you need to change your browser settings too.

Here's how you can get proxy adderss and a port number through which you can set your browser to surf anonymously on internet with few steps of settings.
 hidemyass.com is one of many sites that provide free proxy addresses to its users. Visit the link hidemyass.com/proxy-list/ to get list of free proxy addresses and port numbers which can be used to configure browser. Copy proxy address of the country you wish to surf from and also remember the 4 digit port address provided in same row.

After copying address perform following settings in various browsers as described below
Chrome users
1) goto settings -> options -> under the hood -> network -> change proxy settings -> Connections -> Local Area Network setting

2) Select "LAN Settings" options and select "Use a proxy server for your Lan"
3) Paste proxy address that you copied and enter the port number that you remembered
4) Click Ok.

Firefox users
1) goto options menu ->Advance ->Network->settings

2) Select "Manual Proxy configuration"

3) Paste proxy address that you copied for appropriate protocol used i.e FTP,HTTP etc and enter the port number that you remembered
4) Click Ok.

That is all you need to do and now you can surf anonymously and you can verify this by checking your IP address before doing changes and after doing changes on various sites which lets you know your IP address like know my ip or what is my ip.

To use your original Ip settings you need to revert above steps.