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0 pointsimurray12y ago0 comments

I used X11 forwarding over SSH to run a browser on my VPS

Running a browser remotely in that way can be quite painful. Running Firefox locally you can tell it to use a socks proxy on localhost:1080 after connecting to your VPS with "ssh -D 1080". You may also want to set the about:config setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true.

Or you could use VPN software, but that's more to setup, and you already have ssh access.

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Zak12y ago

Yes, it's a little laggy. I tried Firefox, which was extremely slow, Chromium, which wouldn't run on VZ and finally Arora, which was tolerable. Yours is probably a better way, which I'll keep in mind for the future. The remote browser wouldn't work at all for a highly interactive app or multimedia.

easytiger12y ago

Well that is the wrong thing to do in that situation.

Just use ssh -D to set up a socks proxy and use your local browser via your remote VPS. I fail to see how that isn't obvious

loudmax12y ago

I fail to see how that isn't obvious

ssh -D sounds like a good solution to the problem. ssh is a powerful tool with a lot of options that are well worth learning. Many of these options are not, however, "obvious". If you doing anything with UI, I hope you aren't in the mindset that every every feature is obvious.

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