#EASYVPN FIREFOX HOW TO#
#EASYVPN FIREFOX PROFESSIONAL#

#EASYVPN FIREFOX PROFESSIONAL#

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.26.

#EASYVPN FIREFOX HOW TO#

I'm unsure of how to solve this problem and assistance here would be greatly appreciated! My personal guess would be that it's a keylogger taking and sending screenshots. I definitely recommend using a vpn when working remotely over unknown wifi, and one of the easiest ways to do that is with ssh.Every once in a while (~10 minutes?) my system slows by a considerably large amount in terms of response to inputs.

However, wifi networks can have security issues. We all need to use wifi, especially when travelling. I believe there might be some plugins that make it easier to have proxies setup, turned off and on and such, but I havenвЂ™t used one so canвЂ™t make a recommendation. Unless you use Firefox with the ssh vpn all the time I prefer to use a profile so I donвЂ™t have to go into the settings every time and make changes. So when I want to use Firefox over the ssh vpn I just open up Firefox using that profile. I have a specific profile setup to use with an ssh-based vpn on port 8080.

Use remote DNS (which I prefer, but you donвЂ™t have to)ДЇirefox can have profiles.

Port 8080 (or any you want, just has to be the same as you set in the ssh command).

To access the network settings in Firefox, go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Network. ItвЂ™s straightforward to configure Firefox. You could also use the -N and -T switches to not execute a remote command and disable getting a tty.ДЄs long as that ssh session is up the proxy will be working. your-laptop$ lsof -n -P -i :8080 -sTCP:LISTENД¬OMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME You can see that ssh is listening on localhost 8080. It can be this easy: your-laptop$ ssh -D 127.0.0.1:8080 # now logged in to remote host, ssh proxy is setup $5 a month, start it up only when you know when you are going to need it, very inexpensive. The instance could be quite smallвЂ¦512MB should be fine. But those are easy to come by, and you could easily startup a server in a public cloud, such as Digital Ocean.

Of course, in order to use this you need a remote ssh server. WhatвЂ™s more, the tunnel is encrypted with ssh.

When using Firefox over an ssh vpn as discussed in this post, all your web and dns traffic from Firefox will be tunneled through the ssh socks proxy, and come out through the remote server. Who wants to maintain a complex vpn system when all one needs is a safe and secure ssh server? Not me. I will often use Firefox over an SSH connection to a remote host when using wifi at airports, on planes, in coffee shops, etc.ДЄlsoвЂ“I use it to gain access to internal web services remotely, as opposed to using some awful vpn system, one where the vpn server hasnвЂ™t been updated in X number of years. ItвЂ™s really easy to setup, and if you use Firefox profiles you can have a profile that is pre-configured to use with any ssh socks connection. There are quite a few blog posts on how to do this already, but I think itвЂ™s so simple and easy that itвЂ™s worth repeating. I thought I would write a quick post on using OpenSSH as a simple vpn for use with Firefox.

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