1166357 - Firefox 38.0.1 does not send proxy settings to Java plugin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1165286

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150513174244

Steps to reproduce:

Java applets that require internet access behind a proxy do not get the proxy settings from Firefox and crash
It worked on Firefox 37, but does not work anymore since firefox 38 update.

bug reported here
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2934623


Actual results:

Java applets that require internet access on a proxy based computer do not work anymore


Expected results:

Java applets that require internet access on a proxy based computer work, receive proxy settings from firefox and simply work.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #0)
> It worked on Firefox 37, but does not work anymore since firefox 38 update.

Could you find the regression range?
http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Hello,
Why not, but could you provide last firefox37 nightly date, and first firefox38 nightly date?
I suppose you talk about nightly releases?

Comment 3

[Loic]

It's a known bug.