Comments on: Google Chrome Socks Proxy Workaround

By: tylerl

tylerl — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:09:00 +0000

Chrome actually uses the Internet Explorer proxy settings. So if you set up a SOCKS proxy for IE, it will be used by chrome.

By: Kostya

Kostya — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:46:07 +0000

Hello there.
To fix this problem for SOCKS5 (SSH-tunnel) in chrome:
1) add --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:port", after chrome.exe" in your shortcut;
2) switch off DNS prefetching function in options.
that's all.
Thanx to http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/goog...

By: Kostya

Kostya — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:46:07 +0000

By: gnug125

gnug125 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:00:12 +0000

it would be much easier to simply append this to the end of your shortcut –proxy-server:socks5://localhost:3210

By: Kolomona

Kolomona — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:59:39 +0000

Nice, I'll have to try it

By: proxy

proxy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:15:59 +0000

have you used TOR switching for firefox ? how good is your solutoin as compared to FF plugins ?

By: surfboards

surfboards — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:31:14 +0000

Hey thanks a lot for such informative post, I was actually looking around for the same from a long time.

By: Spike

Spike — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:02:10 +0000

Looks like it's working!
Thanks!

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:04:24 +0000

All I have in my config is:
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:1080 .

and it works like a charm. Try changing your lines to that and see if it
does the trick.

By: Spike

Spike — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:53:06 +0000

Hmm, I currently enable an SSH tunnel session with one of my offsite boxes. And then use Firefox to route through localhost:1080.

Yesterday I installed Privoxy for Chrome and tried it, and it immediately showed my SSH box's IP during surfing. I tried it today, and it doesn't work. So, I did the main configuration file (I hadn't earlier) and added:

forward / localhost:1080
forward :443 .

And now I get this on chrome when I go to whatismyip.com:
Empty server or forwarder response.
The connection has been closed but Privoxy didn't receive any data.

I'm stumped.

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:02:08 +0000

Actually, Google dropped the beta designation from
Chrome<http://geeklad.com/google-chrome-20>a couple of months ago.
However, if you ask me I'd say yeah, it's still
more like a beta browser. If the browser is still having to make use of
Internet Explorer components and does not have a standalone engine for
handling proxies, I'd still call it a beta.
I suspect that once the Mac OS X and Linux versions come along, it should
finally be handling proxy support within the app, and this workaround will
no longer be needed. It does take some work, but if you are intent on using
Chrome behind a socks firewall, it is probably one of the few viable
solutions out there.

By: proxie

proxie — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:52:25 +0000

Is that not a bit much work for chrome its still beta…

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buddhakwee — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:07:28 +0000

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