Though I've been using ssh in a basic way I've never until now looked into how to run something like Firefox on a remote machine residing in another country so as to get around country-specific annoyances. So I found this page: https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html and followed the instructions, went into the Firefox network settings on my local machine and chose SOCKS Host, put in 127.0.0.1 and port 8080, and checked the box for Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5, but I see that by default, in the box 'No Proxy for' it already has localhost, 127.0.0.1 Wouldn't keeping that there defeat the object? Do I need to remove that? I tried removing it, then opened a terminal and did as suggested: ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 {remote_machine} I see that by going to http://whatsmyip.org/ the remote IP address is shown and from testing a couple of sites, all seems to work as I need it to, but since I'll be wanting to do this occasionally and switch back and forth in the Firefox network settings, I don't understand if I should always remove that line in 'No Proxy for'? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org