Closed Bug 660067 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Use System Proxy Settings ignores system wide Automatically detect settings

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 621429

People

(Reporter: christopher, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.68 Safari/534.30
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

It also ignores the system setting "Use automatic configuration script".


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Windows control panel -> Internet Options -> Connections -> Lan Settings.
2. Put a check next to Automatically Detect Settings.
3. In Firefox go to Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings.
4. Put the radio button next to Use System Proxy Settings then click Ok and Ok again.
5.  Open any url.  


Actual Results:  
Firefox will not try to Auto-detect the proxy.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should auto-detect the proxy.

This also applies to the system setting for Use Automatic Configuration Script.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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