I want firefox on my laptop to only go through a VPN and the easiest solution I came up with is forcing firefox SOCKS5 Proxy Docker Container which goes through a Mullvad gluetun docker container. I connect to my home server via tailscale

Browser < -tailscale- > SOCKS5 Docker < — > gluetun Docker < — > Internet

Is that a good idea? It seems a little overengineered, but simpler than running two VPNs on one machine?

Thanks

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    Why not just point Firefox at the proxy address in its Connection Settings, instead of trying to force it with containers?

    Are you trying to prevent Firefox from ignoring its proxy setting to do something sneaky?