280216 - Firefox attempts to load home (or commandline specified) page before applying automatic proxy configuration URL settings

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100022

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Shadwick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Whether I launch Firefox normally, or open the Start->Run box in Windows XP and
type a URL, I'll always get errors resolving the hostname because Firefox
doesn't configure its proxy settings via the automatic proxy configuration URL
setting before attempting to load a page on startup.

I know this is the problem because subsequent attempts to load web pages after
the initial error result in no problems whatsoever.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a valid automatic proxy configuration URL
2. Close Firefox
3. Open Firefox (assuming it's set to automatically load a page on startup,
either via a "home page" setting or a command line argument)

Actual Results:  
Got an error resolving hostname

Expected Results:  
Configured its proxy settings via the URL set in the options menu

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug, thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100022 ***