168554 - cooperation with netswitcher

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[werner.makovicky]

Mozilla 1.2a 2002081014 on Windows 2000 SP3 5.00.2195
Using netswitcher 3.2.6 (great tool, btw)
cannot propagate proxy setting to Mozilla during netswitcher APPLY process

Comment 1

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

Can't propagate the proxy settings? Like... Netswitcher will not apply its proxy
settings to Mozilla? That would be their problem, AFAIK.

Reporter, is this how you mean propigate? Where netswitcher sends its settings
to Mozilla? Please clarify.

Comment 2

[werner.makovicky]

Reply to additional comment #1:

Usually, I connect to a certain network, and run netswitcher to "apply" the
settings that I need there including proxy settings, and consequently start MS 
IE with the proxy settings just "applied" by Netswitcher. 
I've been using this for almost a year now - works perfectly!
Tried to do the same with Mozilla (instead of MS IE) since it is supported in 
Netswitcher 3.2.6, but Mozilla does not react to the netswitcher settings.

Could you please explain point nr. 4:
-------------------------------------- netswitcher release notes ------------
Release Notes for Version 3.2.6 (TBD):

   1. n/a here

   2. Added support for Mozilla 1.0 browser.  Note that in the event that more 
than one "Netscape" browser is installed on the system, NetSwitcher will 
support only one of them.  The priority is: Mozilla, Netscape 6, any other 
version in that order.

   3. n/a here

   4. Added a check for a running copy of either Netscape Navigator or Mozilla 
after the APPLY is selected.  Since both of these applications always WRITE 
their settings out when they exit, any changes NetSwitcher might make are lost 
when they exit.  If a running copy of Netscape or Mozilla is found, the user is 
asked if he wants it closed or will close it himself. 

Comment 3

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

Now, I can't pretend to really understand the code that makes this thing tick, 
so I may be incredibly wrong here. Forgive me if I am. But I think this is 
mostly correct ;)

Right, this looks to me like something changed between Mozilla 1.0 and 1.2a. 
But I really can't say for sure.

Mozilla is designed to write its settings out when it is exited. If Netswitcher 
writes the settings while Mozilla is running, the settings are placed in 
Mozilla's configuration files. However, Mozilla dosen't automatically read the 
preferences in. When you go to exit Mozilla, it calls the code to write the 
preferences it knows, and it will overwrite your changes. The proper fix is to 
have netswitcher tell Mozilla to reread the changes (if this is even possible), 
or to exit Mozilla before running the netswitcher.

Either way, it seems to me that something changed in Mozilla 1.0 to 1.2a. I 
will check on this today, and get back to you.

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

reporter: is this still an issue with a recent build of mozilla (for example,
1.2.1), and a recent version of this other app? if so, please comment again with
details. if not, please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 5

[Chris Lyon]

Resolving due to lack of response from reporter.

Please reopen if this bug appears in a new build of Mozilla.

Comment 6

[Michael Lefevre]

verified