SSH Proxy Problem

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I have just got myself a Secure SSH Tunnel & SOCKS Proxy account and I'm having a little problem in getting things working.

I'm using SSH Agent to establish a tunnel to the host server and I have configured Firefox as well using the instructions I have been given.

SSH Agent seems to be connecting to the remote host and lets me log on with my password. The problem comes when I try to load a page with Firefox. All I get are empty pages.

Does anyone have any idea why this should happen?


P.S. - I have instructions to access the remote host using the Terminal but, the same thing happens - a blank page.

ssh -l username -L 1080:remote host:1080 remote host

Obviously I have not used my real username or remote host in the above line.
 
OK, I now know there is nothing wrong with my router's, browser's or, SSH Agent's settings. Last night I installed a fresh version of Tiger onto a separate partition and updated everything to the latest versions. I opened a tunnel with SSH Agent, configured my browser to use the proxy and, hey presto, it all worked fine. However, the question remains - 'Why won't it work with my normal system?" Can anyone help me check that my networking settings are as they should be. It is possible that something has bugg*red them up. BTW I don't mean the network settings in the System Prefs. I know how to do that stuff. I mean with the Terminal about which I am pretty clueless.
 
I think I've cracked it myself. I seems that Firefox was insisting in filling in proxy settings for HTTP, FTP, Gopher and, SOCKS instead of just for SOCKS. After I had deleted Firefox's preferences to make it start afresh everything started working properly. Hopefully, I'll not have any more problems.
 
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