Closed Bug 282676 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Retest Switchproxy extension

Categories

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Product:
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
Public Pages
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: doezka, Unassigned)

Details

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

Firefox freezes on start, both my Fedora C3 as my WinXP box. Seems that after
removing the switch proxy extension the problem is solved. Tried to report to
the maker of switch proxy, but his website is of the air. 

Reproducible: Always
Assignee: bugs → nobody
Component: Extension/Theme Manager → Listings
Product: Firefox → Update
QA Contact: bugs → mozilla.update
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: firefox freezes on start → Retest Switchproxy extension
Bypass : in the extension preferences set "Notify me on updates" to off.
The web site is down so the updated wait for TCP timeout.
Many people have problems with this.
This extension should be removed frim update.mozilla.org until this problem is
solved.
Severity: normal → critical
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
(In reply to comment #2)
> Many people have problems with this.
> This extension should be removed frim update.mozilla.org until this problem is
> solved.

I totally agree.  This makes Firefox look very bad.  For common users, they will
not know the cause and abandon the browser.

The author's website is http://jgillick.nettripper.com/switchproxy/

That site works for me.  
His site hasn't worked for me today, tried this morning and now this evening.
Maybe my proxy has it cached, then.  Anyways, I've CC'd the author to this bug.
My browser started slow, but it still works.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
My browser started slow, but it still works.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0
Resolution: WONTFIX → WORKSFORME
The site is back up and it should work now.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Jeremy Gilick
Down again and already AGAIN many people on IRC asking for help because their
Firefox doesn't start.

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Component: Listings → Web Site
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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