Chrome or Firefox extension?

VPN
1

It will be nice if I can have browser only connection vs system wide.

2

okay, so here’s the thing - you can use your favourite shadowsocks client to work with outline

if you look closer outline for Windows is actually a wrap (based on electron afaik) that runs

  1. ss-local binary from shadowsocks-libev
  2. badvpn tun2socks to redirect all traffic from your system into socks5 locally opened by ss-local

if you wanna use “browser extension” do the following:

  1. install outlinevpn server (I think you’ve done that)

  2. grab shadowsocks-windows from shadowsocks repo on GitHub or from shadowsocks dot org

  3. in your outline manager pick option telling something along the lines of “connect this device”

  4. that will show you long string of symbols, copy it

  5. in shadowsocks-windows choose something like servers->add-> from clipboard (not exact wording)

  6. that will have ss client running on your local machine, by default it will open socks5 on port 1080 (you can change port)

  7. after that you just grab your favorite proxy manager for your browser (I prefer proxy switchy Omega) and point it at 127.0.0.1:1080 with socks5 type of proxy OR you change your browsers proxy settings (but TBH proxy switchy works better, it has lots of options and allows you to proxify only certain IPs or urls or whatever you like)

3

There’s no extension available, but there’s a technical solution.

You can run ss-local, which connects to the Outline server and runs a local SOCKS5 proxy that directs traffic to the server. Then use an extension such as Proxy SwitchyOmega to configure the browser to use the SOCKS5 proxy.

4

Thank you! But frankly, you lost me at 2. I’ll try my best to figure this out. Thanks again for the step by step + your time!

5

Np ask further here, I’ll try to help as much as I can