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Socks Proxy by wakeuteu

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Review by PorfosorBaltazar
by PorfosorBaltazar, 5 years ago
Great addon, simple and fast, can you add an option to enable automatically reload the current page when proxy get enabled?
Thanks

Developer response

posted 3 years ago
Hi, thanks for the feedback, this is actually a good idea.
I've added this to my backlog for next version. (https://github.com/wakeuteu/socksproxy-firefox-addon/issues/10)
20 reviews
  • by Firefox user 13448238, 22 days ago
    Is this extension capable of using the ssh of a virtual server as a proxy?
  • by Vasya, a month ago
    I need sock5 proxies for my work and I'm happy to use this extension. But there are several feature requests if you don't mind:
    1. SOCKS5 proxies can use login/password. I see no way to specify this.
    2. Ability to store up to 5 proxies. And an easy way to switch between them. Because now I have to edit proxy IP manually each time I need to change it. That's not cool.
    Still, thank you for this extension.
  • by baller, 2 months ago
    It works with Orbot. That's what I need.
  • by Korwin, 3 years ago
    К сожалению, дополнение не позволяет указать в настройках каждого из сохраненных SOCKS v5-прокси соответствующие им логин и пароль. Да и прокси позволяет прописать лишь один.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hi,
    I am only mimicking the browser Network settings page. My own test use-case is simple ssh tunneling so I'm not really familiar with mutli-SOCKSv5 proxies configuration.
    Can you elaborate your need?
  • by alireza, 3 years ago
  • by peng1029, 3 years ago
    Works Great

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Thanks!
  • by Firefox user 16554026, 4 years ago
  • by blaird, 4 years ago
    Simple and straight forward works like a charm for a quick "oh man" and way easier than bouncing through the settings every time to proxy something for 5 seconds. How I never found this sooner is beyond me

    NOTE: I probably changed over firefox revisions, but you *MUST* give it private browsing permissions or it will silently just not enable.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Thanks for this great feedback!
    I added a word about this in the add-on description but I need to make the extension more interactive to provide feedback on this (I'm already able to capture the "allow" status).
  • by Alex, 4 years ago
    I my case it was impossible to turn off proxy by clicking on socks icons. The sock turns grey from green, but proxy remains active.

    Firefox 81.0 (64-bit) Linux Mint

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Apologies for this, it was a reported bug that should be fixed in the new release.
    Please let me know if the issue persists.
  • by Kjetil Torgrim Homme, 5 years ago
    KISS! perfect little plugin for me since I only occasionally have an SSH SOCKS proxy running.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hi, thanks for the review :-)
  • by xYDq4wNOHLm9, 5 years ago
  • by Reds116, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15467264, 5 years ago
    Где готовые предустановленные рабочие прокси?! Where are the ready pre-installed work proxies?!

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Hi, this extension is only a wrapper to toggle socks proxy settings from your browser. I'm not a proxy nor VPN provider.
  • by deanishe, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15321235, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14952767, 6 years ago
    Works great, a sorely needed convenience addon for me. One thing, maybe you could make the addon remember it's last used state when the browser closes and reopens? Currently it always starts with socks proxy off, even when you closed the browser with the proxy setting set to "on".

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thanks for your review. I'm using local storage API which is quite unstable on browser restart scenarios (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage). I need to change it for next release as I'm now getting warnings from Firefox add-in checks, it is not recommended to use this API for extensions anymore...
    You can directly open an issue on Github for me to track this evolution (I've just enabled the feature on the repo for this purpose).
    https://github.com/wakeuteu/socksproxy-firefox-addon/issues

    Edit: Took me some times but v1.2.0 should finally bring this feature :-)
  • by Firefox user 14430246, 6 years ago
  • by Soumya, 6 years ago
  • by xavirg, 6 years ago
    Works nice and fast. Well done!

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thanks! I honestly thought nobody was using it.