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Chromium allows you to specify the proxy on the command line:

  chromium-browser --proxy-server="socks5://localhost:<port>"
FoxyProxy is good too; but... yet-another-third-party.


FoxyProxy is useful to have for other reasons, e.g. geolocation blocking / ISP censorship. I rent a cheap virtual server (3 USD/month or so) and keep a constant SSH proxy connection to it, and redirect blocked websites (e.g. TPB in UK) via the proxy using FoxyProxy's URL patterns.




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