283371 - problem connecting to internet (thru proxy)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283370

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Dru Eo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

When trying to connect to a proxy server, Firefox does not connect.
The proxy i need to connect to needs the user to download a authentication 
certificate to log in and browse the web. However, it does not connect to the 
specified proxy, and it seems there is no action taken to do so by the 
browser. Firefox returns the "connection was refused when trying to contact 
the proxy server that you configured..." message. The strange thing is that 
when the computer was booted in safe mode using the master administrator 
account, i was able to connect to the proxy normally. It seems to only do this 
when a normal user account is used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set connection settings to proxy (mine is: proxy.nyit.edu:80)
2.try to access a website (any)


Actual Results:  
firefox immediately returns the error message "connection was refused when 
trying to contact the proxy server that you configured..." 

Expected Results:  
connected and shown the login screen.

Windows XP service pack 2.
Using the same settings in MSIE 6 allowed me to connect normally.
Using firefox in safe mode (with networking) using the master administrator 
account allowed me to connect normally.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283370 ***