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I was able to get this app before it was removed. I followed the directions and it works perfectly on my Macbook Pro.

However, it only works with Safari. It does not work with Chrome, Firefox, or any mail protocols (POP / IMAP / SMTP).

That is because Chrome and Firefox don't follow the system PROXY settings you will have to change those individually.

Mail.app works over the global systems SOCKS proxy as such it works without any issues what so ever.

Without a server to tunnel ssh, it's not possible but with somr Apache/root server access, your best bet is tsocks which is not intuitive to get working.

http://gigo.com/archives/tsocks-on-the-mac.html

http://www.verot.net/socks.htm

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