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  • Setting up one browser remotely, one locally

      As a follow-up to the Firefox and Internet Explorer remote browsing articles we were asked whether you could set IE up for remote browsing and Firefox for local browsing. This certainly can be done – set up your tunnel in Internet Explorer then open up Firefox and go to:   Tools -> Options ->…

  • Browsing the web through a SSH tunnel with Firefox and Putty (Windows)

      If you have the ability to SSH into a remote machine you also have the ability to direct your web browser’s traffic through SSH to that machine. This can be quite handy for browsing the (remote) local network without opening a HTTP port on the firewall.   First, install Putty and Firefox. Putty can…