
I was recently reading an LifeHacker blog post about how to setup an SSH proxy for ‘secure’ web browsing from a non secure location. While this was interesting, I don’t really need it. One thing it didn’t mention that peaked my interest was that you can use multiple Firefox profiles.
I hadn’t realized this. It’s not too hard to setup, but you do need to do some command line trickery. I thought it might be useful to setup on my work laptop. At work I need to use a proxy, but if I take my laptop home, I don’t use a proxy. So a quick way to swap between proxy and no-proxy would be very handy.