632655 - Firefox requires restart after changing KDE proxy settings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 834039

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect, P5)

Description

[patchesthecaveman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.84 Safari/534.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13

Firefox requires a restart for changes made to KDE 4.6.0 global proxy settings to take effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Change the proxy settings in KDE's system settings application.
Actual Results:  
Changes require a restart of Firefox to take effect.

Expected Results:  
Changes take effect immediately.

Changes take effect immediately when using GNOME and changing its global proxy settings.  This problem also affects Google Chrome.

Comment 1

[Sparhawk]

In my case, a restart of Firefox does not make the proxy settings function. I've filed a new bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834039

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258