AFAIK, there's still no proper SOCKS user authorization. So if I do something like that on my own VPS, I'll quickly have like 10 000 open connections from Pakistan there.
> At least in Firefox there's builtin UI for configuring it separately from OS
Yes, also extensions like FoxyProxy.
SOCKS4/5 configuration in Firefox is a pure joy. Adding a Putty tunnel there is probably the only simple way to achieve what I described in the comment above.
AFAIK, there's still no proper SOCKS user authorization. So if I do something like that on my own VPS, I'll quickly have like 10 000 open connections from Pakistan there.
> At least in Firefox there's builtin UI for configuring it separately from OS
Yes, also extensions like FoxyProxy.
SOCKS4/5 configuration in Firefox is a pure joy. Adding a Putty tunnel there is probably the only simple way to achieve what I described in the comment above.