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I came across this topic:

Proxychains doesn't work as intended in Kali Linux

and I was wondering if we need to run this command " proxychains firefox www.duckduckgo" or proxychains firefox www.whatever.org, any time we want to visit a new website.

I mean, wouldn't it be sufficient just running " proxychains firefox" once to make firefox work via proxchains for any website we are going to visit from then, until we close it?

Thanks

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From ProxyChains :

ProxyChains is a UNIX program, that hooks network-related libc functions in dynamically linked programs via a preloaded DLL and redirects the connections through SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies.

This means that ProxyChains does its job as the program is loaded into memory, modifying the way that the libc library works for that program invocation.

So, once proxychains firefox is run, Firefox will be programmed to use the proxy for this invocation and any URL that you point it to. However, once Firefox terminates, any effect is lost, and for the next session you need to use the command again.

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  • ok. so, it means that I don't need to run the command for any website I am going to visit. I can use Firefox until I close the session. Thanks
    – jeysmith
    Jun 10, 2022 at 12:29

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