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HotCakeX
Oct 11, 2019MVP
Add SOCKS5 (+ Authentication) support to Edge insider browser
Hi, Please consider adding SOCKS5 proxy support and Authentication (username and password) to the new Edge browser. currently only Firefox has that capability (without Auth). Microsoft Edge ins...
gardenvv290
Oct 11, 2019Brass Contributor
Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't chromium already have the ability to use SOCKS5 as a proxy?
- HotCakeXOct 11, 2019MVP
So I found this about Chromium:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/network-stack/socks-proxy
not sure if it works on Google chrome, but I tried it on Edge insider Canary and couldn't get it to work with TOR (SOCKS5)
I could however use the Windows Internet options to enable system-wide TOR connection for all of my applications.
and it works fine.
but no Authentication support (when you wanna use premium SOCKS proxy) and no possibility for limiting the connection only to Edge insider, like Firefox below
- HotCakeXDec 03, 2019MVPAny updates?