How to Use Socks5 Proxy With Google Chrome
Created On: 2016-12-22
Suppose you have a socks5 proxy running at localhost:8001. Here is the command to start chrome with that proxy:
google-chrome --proxy-bypass-list=localhost,10.0.0.0/8,127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 --proxy-server=socks5://localhost:8001 &
Single Instance Detection and User Data Dir
If chrome is already running when you run this command, you need to quit it first. Since repeated invocations of google-chrome will reuse an existing process for a given user data directory.
If you want to keep the existing chrome running and start a new instance with this proxy settings, you can create a new user-data-dir:
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/chrome-with-proxy google-chrome --user-data-dir=$HOME/.config/chrome-with-proxy --proxy-bypass-list=localhost,10.0.0.0/8,127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 --proxy-server=socks5://localhost:8001 &
Create a Wrapper Script
If you always want to start chrome with proxy, you can create a wrapper
script. Create ~/bin/chrome or /usr/local/bin/chrome with the following
content:
#!/bin/sh google-chrome --proxy-bypass-list=localhost,10.0.0.0/8,127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 --proxy-server=socks5://localhost:8001 "$@" &
Then you can call chrome to start it. You can also put --user-data-dir
there if you wish.
References
man google-chrome--proxy-bypass-listoption, supported pattern format