Socks Proxy

This is useful for tunneling web traffic through another machine.

ssh -D LOCAL_PORT USER@SERVER_ADDRESS

FireFox Settings

• Navigate to about:preferences#general.
• Scroll down to Network Settings.
• Change to Manual proxy configuration.
• Clear all other settings.
• Set SOCKS host to localhost and port to the defined port.
• Select SOCKS v5 as the type and save.

Chrome and Edge

These web browsers use your system proxy settings.

• For Edge navigate to edge://settings/profiles.
• For Chrome nagigate to chrome://settings/system.
• Go to System.
• Select Open your computer's proxy settings.

This set up will differ system-to-system but the changes will impact all traffic on your system rather than just your browser.