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by _k2vp 380 days ago
You always could by just setting the proxy environment variables (or in settings). The standard port for the tor daemon is 9050.

In fact, it's relatively easy to write a socks proxy that lets you route traffic through a arbitrary protocols. For example, I can serve/visit websites on syncthing with a socks5 proxy as a translation layer: https://github.com/acheong08/syndicate

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Chrome has zero user-facing proxy controls of its own on Windows, nor PAC support. But the --proxy-server command line argument works.