Quick & Easy Guide to SSH Tunnelling with Firefox
I looked around on “The Google” (as our late GW would say) to find a non-nonsense walk through on setting up SSH tunnelling w/ Firefox, and although I found a few pages that, when combined together, got me set up, I didn’t see one that was near foolproof from start to finish. Thus, my gift to the internet is this.
Steps for SSH Tunnelling and secure web browsing with Firefox:
Note: oddly enough, you need a working SSH server login in order for this to work.
Tunnelier:
- Open Tunnelier (download page)
- Open it up, enter your SSH server details on the first tab
- Click on the “Services” Tab
- Check the “Enabled” box; you’ll see “Listen Interface” should be 127.0.0.1 (your computer) and “Listen Port” should be 1080
- Click the “Login” button
Firefox:
- Open Firefox (download page)
- Type “about:config” in the address bar ( and then press enter, obviously
) - Filter for “socks”
- Set the value of “network.proxy.socks” to “127.0.0.1″
- Set the value of “network.proxy.socks_port” to “1080″
- Set the value of “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to “true”
- Select “Tools” -> “Options” -> Click the “Network” Tab
- Select “Settings…”
- Click the “Manual Proxy Configuration” radio
- HTTP Proxy, SSL Proxy, FTP Proxy, and Gopher Proxy should be BLANK
- “SOCKS Host” should be 127.0.0.1 on port 1080
- Click “OK” and whatnot, and give it a try – should work assuming you’re connected to your SSH server
OK – that was easy, no? Happy safe and secure tunnelled browsing!
