Closed Bug 1008887 Opened 10 years ago Closed 6 years ago

New addon version checking on update does not use http proxy setup

Categories

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Add-ons Manager
Version:
29 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: eric.valette, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) KHTML/4.12.4 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.12 Steps to reproduce: 1) Update your version while suing an hhtp proxy to reach external web servers Actual results: 2) On restart, firefox will hang for 10 mins because it tries to fetch addons not using the proxy setup Expected results: It should sue the proxy setup when trying to fetch addon as it does when launched normally.
Blocks: 449216
Component: Untriaged → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
NB in addition the cancel button does not work, you have to kill the process manually.
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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