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The gide I linked to makes the firefox bit more complicated. I used this guide
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunnel
Configuring Firefox to use the Tunnel
On Firefox click on the menus Edit > Preferences. Pick the Advanced tab and click on Settings next to Configure how Firefox connects to the internet. Select Manual proxy configuration, enter localhost in the SOCKS Host text field and enter the port you used for your tunnel. Close the dialog to apply the settings.
At this point most the traffic from Firefox will go to the port selected, where the SSH process will pick it and send it encrypted to your SSH server, which will in turn establish the actual connections to the web servers. There are two exceptions:
Hosts listed in the No proxy for setting. By default this setting lists localhost and 127.0.0.1. You could add other hosts or IP addresses if you want Firefox to connect to them directly (instead of using the tunnel).
Firefox will still do DNS lookups for the hostnames.