We seen how to setup Mozilla Firefox to use a proxy and how to do the same with Google Chrome, but what if we don’t have a conventional proxy?
If we are lucky to have an intermediate (meaning that it can connect to the target service we want to access) host that accept SSH connections, we can use that SSH connection as proxy.
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How to setup Google Chrome to use a proxy
We have seen how to setup Mozilla Firefox to use a proxy and now we see how to setup Google Chrome to do the same.
As for Mozilla Firefox, to configure Google Chrome to access a proxy you first need to have the proxy details (you may request them to the Network Admin of the service you need to access):
How to setup Mozilla Firefox to use a proxy
Sometime we may need to connect to a web service that, for security reasons, accepts incoming connections only from specific hosts or IP addresses and our computer does not match any of those requirements.
The best way to connect to those services is to connect first to an intermediate computer that act as proxy to the target service we want to access.
To configure Mozilla Firefox to access a proxy, you first need to have the proxy details (you may request them to the Network Admin of the service you need to access):