1150899 - Search activity does not follow SOCKS proxy setttings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 507641

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Search Activity, defect)

Description

[D Mogle]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Setup Firefox SOCKS proxy to Orbot
2. Use the search activity to get my IP address (I used duckduckgo).


Actual results:

My actual IP address was returned.


Expected results:

The search activity should search through the SOCKS proxy as configured in Firefox, resulting in the IP of the Tor exit node returning instead of my actual IP.

Comment 1

[supersonicsnow]

I can confirm proxy settings as described here are not respected:

i) Using the about:config feature
Launch the Firefox browser, and then type “about:config” in the address bar and press return.
Enter “proxy.http” into the search box on the about:config page.
Tap Modify on “network.proxy.http” and type the proxy server name/ip address into the text box.
Tap Modify on “network.proxy.http_port” and type the port number into the number box.Firefox Browser Proxy Settings
Enter “network.proxy.type” into the search box on the about:config page.
Tap Modify on “network.proxy.type” and input the number 1.
Firefox Browser Proxy Settings
Note: To configure proxy servers for SSL, kindly enter “proxy.ssl” in step 2.