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Is it possible to specify the SOCKS proxy for Safari in OS X Lion?

I've got an address and port number I have to fill in there but I can't find the settings in the browser...

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No. It is only possible to set the system-wide proxy for a specific connection in System Preferences » Network » (select a connection) » Advanced… » Proxies.

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Which is where you are sent when you access Safari » Preferences… » Advanced » Proxies.

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this is stupid, since in firefox I can do this without problem. what I wanted to say is if using safari can be hacked for this purpose – flow Nov 1 '11 at 19:07
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@flow Firefox is a cross-platform program and probably not even capable of using the system-wide proxy. As should be obvious from the integration of the Network preference pane into Safari's own options, there just is no separate proxy configuration for Safari. – Daniel Beck Nov 1 '11 at 19:29
SOCKS proxies are commonly used to provide different proxies for different processes. It's clearly a flaw in Mac OS X if you cannot easily do this. – Jeff Burdges Apr 4 at 17:26
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There's also MacProxy to get system-wide network proxy support!

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Can you maybe elaborate a bit on how it works? – slhck Nov 3 '11 at 11:55
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