216859 - Firebird 0.6.1 freezes if installed on a computer in a private LAN where proxy is required but no opportunity to configure it yet

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 205129

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[glnx]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.11  [en]
Build Identifier: http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/

When installed for the first time in a computer in a private LAN with no direct 
internet access, Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 tries to load a default welcome page at 
start up without opportunity to configure a proxy yet. Interface hangs, I have 
to wait for a long time out or kill the process.

Using the Firebird 0.6.1 installer win32 version from http://seb.mozdev.
org/firebird/

Same problem if testing the original zip 0.6.1 from Mozilla website

If I tweak the profile prefs by hand or I copy a prefs file from a 
running/already configured Firebird profile on another computer, it'll work ok

I guess installer, or Firebird when creating a fresh new profile should ask for 
minimal network configuration before trying to load any external page


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firebird 0.6.1 on a private lan, no direct internet access
2. Launch it for the first time with no profile yet
3. It will try to load an external (welcome?) page at startup, but it'll freeze

Actual Results:  
firebird freezes

Expected Results:  
it should allow to setup proxy preferences before contacting any external site

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205129 ***