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Amin Astaneh <[email protected]>
Copyright © 2012

fftunnel is a simple bash script that:

• instantiates a SSH tunnel to the host you specify on localhost:9999
• starts Firefox with a special user profile called ‘Secure’
• kills the SSH tunnel when Firefox is closed

• Start the profile manager using your CLI:
  

  
  
  $ firefox -ProfileManager
  
  

• Click Create Profile.
• Click Next.
• Name the profile “Secure”.
• Click Finish.
• Back in the Profile Manager, select the new profile “Secure” and click “Start Firefox”.
• Go to “Edit→Preferences”.
• Go to Tab “Advanced→Network”.
• Click “Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet”.
• Select “Manual proxy configuration”, under “Socks Host” type “127.0.0.1”, port “9999”.
• Make sure SOCKS5 is selected.
• Click “OK”, close Firefox Preferences.

If you don’t know how to do this, there are many online guides available to show you how.

$ fftunnel user@server (additional options)

Since this wraps around the ssh binary, you can use options such as ‘-p’ to specify port.

Have Fun!