Google Chrome is a fast and famous browser. And then click Create.To purchase individual proxy for all sorts of purposes – from Just enter whatever name you want and then select the Profile type (for this example use Proxy Profile. Click “ New Profile…” Creating New Profileĥ. So what I will use to show you is creating your own profile. You can either use that or create your own. Once you opened the Proxy SwitchyOmega configuration, by default there is already an Example Profile there. Once you get the hang of it you can also play with the auto-switch options. What I will show you is just the BASIC configuration when you want to tunnel to your SOCKS5 proxy. OR, you can just click the SwitchyOmega from your Google Chrome and select Options.Ĥ. Now, you can either open a new tab and enter this URL to open the SwitchyOmega extension settings – “chrome-extension://padekgcemlokbadohgkifijomclgjgif/options.html#/ui” without the quotes. Here’s is an example of how you can do it and let’s assume that I will be using my AWS proxy which I have created.ģ. After you downloaded and installed Proxy SwitchyOmega, you can now set up SOCKS5 proxy on Chrome. First, go to Chrome Web Store to download Proxy SwitchyOmega or get it from the developer’s SwtichyOmega GitHub.Ģ. Yes, folks! Proxy SwitchyOmega is the Chrome extension that I can recommend for you to set up or configure SOCKS5 on Chrome.ġ. Setup SOCKS5 Proxy On Chrome using Proxy SwitchyOmega Extension And I will show you how easy it is to set up a SOCKS5 proxy on Chrome. But do not be despair because there is still hope for Google Chrome to get away from Internet Explorer’s Proxy settings and customize it with your own configuration. Google Chrome is not your best browser by default. So if you are planning to set up your own proxy server, trying a new SOCKS5 proxy, or building your own SOCKS5 proxy server like I have documented before on how to how to bypass Internet censorship with Shadowsocks and AWS, Mozilla Firefox which is one of the most popular web browsers is the most stable browser that can do the job for SOCKS5. And Internet Explorer does not support the SOCKS5 protocol.

This is because Google Chrome is sharing the proxy setting/configuration with your installed Internet Explorer.

Setting up SOCKS5 proxy on Chrome is not easy by default.

Setup SOCKS5 Proxy On Chrome using Proxy SwitchyOmega Extension.

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