How to set up a proxy in Ghost Browser: add it, give it to an Identity, fix the errors

To add a proxy in Ghost Browser, click the Ghost Proxy Control button, choose Add/Edit Proxies, then Add a Single Proxy. Enter Host, Port, Username and Password as separate fields and click Add Proxy. Then pick that proxy as the Active Identity and click Reload. Below: each field, which level wins, Residential Premium, ISP and mobile proxies, and a fix for each error.

Ghost Browser keeps accounts apart with Identities: each one has its own cookie jar, its own tab colour and, once you assign one, its own proxy. The proxy is what decides which IP address and which country the sites see. Proxies live in Ghost Proxy Control, Ghost Browser's own extension, which can give a different proxy to a tab, an Identity or a whole Workspace. The field names below are the ones in Ghost Browser's documentation, and the values come from the QuanticData endpoint generator.

What you need before you start

• Ghost Browser with Ghost Proxy Control. On Ghost Browser's plans page the Free version includes Ghost Proxy Control for assigning a proxy by Workspace or Identity (not by tab) and up to three Identities; Ghost Browser's Basic plan does not include it; its Pro plan includes it for every tab, Identity and Workspace.
• A proxy plan. Residential Premium, ISP or mobile: all of them work in Ghost Browser. The table further down says which one fits which Identity.
• The four values: host, port, username and password. In the QuanticData dashboard they are under My proxies, on the plan's page, in the Endpoint generator, under Connection details.

Where each value goes in Ghost Proxy Control

Ghost Proxy Control does not take a proxy as one pasted line: Add a Single Proxy has a field for each part. Open Connection details under the generator's Preview and copy the values one by one:

Ghost Proxy Control field	What to enter	Example (Korea, sticky)
Name (optional)	A label you will recognise in the Identity menus	KR identity 01
Host	The gateway, with nothing in front for HTTP; socks5:// in front for SOCKS5	residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io
Port (if required)	8080 for HTTP, 1080 for SOCKS5	8080
Username (if required)	The whole username, targeting and session included	USER-country-kr-sid-p01-ttl-60m
Password (if required)	The plan's password	PASS
Tags (optional)	Words to enable or disable groups of proxies at once	kr, premium

The same proxy as the generator shows it, and as the four values:

# the generator's Preview (output format host:port:user:pass)
residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io:8080:USER-country-kr-sid-p01-ttl-60m:PASS

# the same values in Ghost Proxy Control
Host      residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io
Port      8080
Username  USER-country-kr-sid-p01-ttl-60m
Password  PASS

The username is the whole string, with everything after the first dash: -country-kr picks the exit country, -sid-p01 names the session and -ttl-60m keeps it for 60 minutes. Copy it whole. A username cut at the first dash still authenticates, but the Identity then leaves from a random country on a new IP at every request.

Step by step: add a proxy and give it to an Identity

1. Generate the values. In the QuanticData dashboard open My proxies, then your plan. In the Endpoint generator choose the Country (South Korea is listed as Korea), set Session to Sticky, set Session TTL (minutes) to at least the time the Identity stays in use, keep Protocol on HTTP and open Connection details.
2. Open Ghost Proxy Control. Click its button in the extension bar and choose Add/Edit Proxies. The settings page opens in a tab.
3. Click Add a Single Proxy. Fill in Name, Host, Port, Username and Password from Connection details, add a tag if you group proxies, and click Add Proxy. The proxy now appears under Proxy List.
4. Open a tab in the Identity. In the Identity Manager, create an Identity with a name and a colour, then click the plus icon next to its name to open a tab in it.
5. Assign the proxy. Click the Ghost Proxy Control button again. Under Override connection for, pick the proxy in the Active Identity menu, then click Reload. Active Tab and Active Workspace work the same way for one tab or a whole Workspace.
6. Check it. In a tab of that Identity open ipinfo.io/json, or search "what is my IP". The city, region and time zone must match the -country- in the username. Ghost Browser's documentation adds a quicker check: right-click the page and the proxy appears near the bottom of the menu.

For a permanent Identity there is a second way in: open the Identity Manager and click Set Proxy under the Identity, then choose the proxy from the menu. The Identity keeps that proxy every time it opens, in any Workspace.

Tab, Identity or Workspace: which proxy wins

Ghost Proxy Control can set a proxy at three levels, and its documentation gives the order in which they apply:

• A proxy set under Override connection for wins over Auto-Assign Proxies.
• A tab's proxy wins over the proxy of its Temporary Identity and of its Workspace.
• A Temporary Identity's proxy wins over the Workspace's proxy.

Ghost Browser Identity	Cookies	Proxy
Default Identity (gray tabs)	One cookie jar for the whole browser	Per tab only, not for the group
Temporary Identity	Gone when its last tab closes; separate in each Workspace	Set from Ghost Proxy Control; lost when the tabs close
Identity (Identity Manager)	Kept, and shared across Workspaces	Set once and used every time

For accounts that log in again and again, use permanent Identities, each with its own proxy: the cookies and the address stay together. Temporary Identities suit quick checks. To remove a proxy, click Clear Tab, Clear Identity or Clear Workspace in the popup, then Reload.

One sticky session per Identity

An Identity is meant to look like one person on one connection. A rotating proxy changes IP on every request, which is fine for scraping and wrong for an account that logs in. A sticky session keeps one IP for as long as the session lives, and the session lives in the username, so the entry never has to change once it is saved.

# Identity 1: Korea, one session for a working day
Username  USER-country-kr-sid-p01-ttl-480m

# Identity 2: same plan, its own session (never reuse p01)
Username  USER-country-kr-sid-p02-ttl-480m

# Identity 3: Korea, in use all day
Username  USER-country-kr-sid-p03-ttl-1440m

• A different session ID in every Identity. Two Identities on the same entry share one IP, which is what Identities are there to avoid.
• A lifetime longer than the work. The generator accepts up to 1440 minutes, a full day. When the session ends, the next request gets a new IP, and a site can see that as a new login location.
• The country in the username. Without -country- the exit can be anywhere, and the Identity's time zone will not match. Ghost Proxy Control 2.0.0.10 added support for overriding the operating system's time zone to match the proxy's.

With Session set to Sticky, the generator makes as many lines as the Quantity field says, ten by default, each with its own session ID; Copy all or Download takes them out. One line per Ghost Proxy Control entry, one entry per Identity.

Auto-Assign Proxies uses the same list for Temporary Identities: tick Assign each New, choose Temporary Identity or tab, then Random, Random (no repeat) or Next proxy in list. Every new Temporary Identity gets the next entry, so with one sticky session per entry each one gets its own IP. Re-assign Existing, then Reload, hands the list out again to the Temporary Identities already open.

Residential Premium, ISP and mobile proxies in Ghost Browser

Proxy type	In Ghost Proxy Control	Good for
Residential Premium	Host residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io, Port 8080 (HTTP) or 1080 (SOCKS5); one sticky username per Identity with country, region, city or ISP in it; username and password only	Most Identities: home IPs in the country you choose, for example South Korea residential proxies
ISP	Fixed IPs listed under Assigned IPs as IP:Port:Username:Password: the IP goes in Host, then Port, Username and Password; one IP per Identity	Long-lived accounts that should keep the same address for months: South Korea ISP proxies
Mobile	Host mobile.quantumproxies.io, HTTP 8080 or SOCKS5 1080, -type-mobile in the username; Global, USA, EU or Asia gateway; with IP whitelist, Host and Port only	Phone-first platforms and accounts tied to mobile networks: South Korea mobile proxies

On mobile plans the IP whitelist is a second way to sign in: add your IP in the generator, take the host:port list it gives, and leave Username and Password empty in Ghost Proxy Control, which marks both as "if required". For a new IP on Residential Premium or Mobile, use a new session ID in the username (-sid-p02 instead of -sid-p01), edit the entry with the pencil in Proxy List, and Reload. ISP proxies are static addresses by design.

For a wider view of why each Identity needs its own address, see residential proxies for antidetect browsers, or the same setup in Dolphin Anty. The plans themselves are on the pages for QuanticData residential proxies, ISP proxies and QuanticData mobile proxies.

Adding many proxies at once

1. Make the lines. In the generator, set Session to Sticky and the quantity you need, generate, then Copy all or Download.
2. Get Ghost's file. In Ghost Proxy Control open Add Bulk Proxies and export the pre-formatted .csv file. It already holds the proxies you added, with the columns Custom Name, Host, Port, Username, Password and Tags.
3. Fill it in. One proxy per row, the four values split into their columns. Do not rename the file or change the column names. A blank Custom Name is numbered for you (1, 2, 3).
4. Import it. Click Import Proxy List and choose the file. Then test each entry with the Test button to the right of it.

Custom Name,Host,Port,Username,Password,Tags
KR identity 01,residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io,8080,USER-country-kr-sid-p01-ttl-480m,PASS,kr
KR identity 02,residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io,8080,USER-country-kr-sid-p02-ttl-480m,PASS,kr

Ghost Browser proxy not working: errors and fixes

When Ghost Browser cannot use a proxy, the tab shows Chromium's error page instead of the site, or a window asks for a username and password. These are the cases behind them, in the order to check.

What you see	Usual cause	Fix
No internet, "There is something wrong with the proxy server, or the address is incorrect", ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED	Ghost cannot reach the proxy: a typo or http:// in Host, the wrong Port, or a network that blocks the port	Host residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io with nothing in front, Port 8080 (HTTP) or socks5:// with 1080
A sign-in window asking for the proxy's username and password	Username or Password empty, cut or pasted with a space	Edit the entry with the pencil and copy both again from Connection details
ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED	The proxy was reached but did not open the connection to the site	Check the plan in My proxies (status, remaining traffic, expiry date), then the targeting in the username
Wrong country or time zone	No -country- in the username, or Worldwide chosen in the generator	Generate the values with a country and replace the Username
One tab leaves from another IP	That tab has its own proxy, which wins over the Identity's	Clear Tab in the popup, then Reload
The IP changes in the middle of a session	The session lifetime ended, or two Identities share one entry	A longer -ttl- and a different -sid- in every entry
A leak test shows your own IP	WebRTC, which can reveal the real address even behind a proxy	Turn on Disable WebRTC in Ghost Browser's settings, under Advanced

One test outside the browser settles most cases in a minute. If this returns an address in Korea, the proxy works and the problem is in the entry's fields:

curl -x http://residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io:8080 \
  -U "USER-country-kr-sid-test-ttl-10m:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json

If the same command fails on your network but works from another one, a firewall or your provider is blocking the connection to the proxy port.

HTTP or SOCKS5 in Ghost Browser

Ghost Proxy Control takes HTTP, HTTPS, IPv6 and SOCKS5 proxies. HTTP is the default: Host without a prefix and Port 8080, and it is the one to start with. For SOCKS5, Ghost's documentation asks for the scheme in the Host field, so the entry becomes Host socks5://residentialpremium.quantumproxies.io with Port 1080 and the same username and password. SOCKS5 passes any kind of connection, not only web pages; the details are on the page for SOCKS5 proxies. If a SOCKS5 entry does not connect while the same username works on HTTP 8080, keep HTTP: it carries everything a browser tab needs.

Before you run accounts

A proxy changes where an Identity's traffic comes from, not what the account is allowed to do. Keep to each platform's terms and to the law where you work, and use one Identity, one session and one address per account.