Use SSH tunnel and Firefox for proxy

1.Use a specified port (e.g., 12345) for SSH SOCKS server:

ssh -D 12345 user@host.domain

2. Go to the setting menu in Firefox, then Advanced->Network->Connection->Settings

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3.Check the “Manual proxy configuration”, fill in SOCKS host (127.0.0.1) and port (your specified port, 12345 in our example)

4. Also, type in “about:config” in the address bar in Firefox, change “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to true.

 

Reference

https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/ssh/setting-up-an-ssh-tunnel-with-your-linode-for-safe-browsing

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