![](https://viptela.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Brave_Browser_logotype.png)
Using a SOCKS proxy
There are two cases:
- Your web browser handles SOCKS proxies (for example Mozilla Firefox), then you just have to configure it to use the proxy.
- Your web browser doesn’t handle SOCKS proxies, then you can try installing a Browser extension.
I’m using SwitchyOmega in Brave browser, a nice extension that seems to also work fine in Vivaldi browser.
![](https://viptela.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Proxy-SwitchyOmega-01.jpg)
Take a look a the Proxy SwitchyOmega GitHub here to know more about it.
How to configure Proxy SwitchyOmega
Step 1 of 2 – Add new proxy server
![](https://viptela.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Proxy-SwitchyOmega-02.jpg)
Step 2 of 2 – Select Startup Profile
![](https://viptela.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Proxy-SwitchyOmega-03-1024x538.jpg)
Open a SSH session that has SOCKS proxy
The following screenshot shows a SSH session configured with SOCKS Proxy using SecureCRT.
![](https://viptela.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Socks-proxy-SecureCRT-01-1-1024x707.jpg)
Open device’s GUI with Brave
![](https://viptela.ciscoar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Yealink-T46-GUI-through-socks-proxy.jpg)