Closed Bug 632655 Opened 13 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Firefox requires restart after changing KDE proxy settings

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: HTTP
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 834039

People

(Reporter: patchesthecaveman, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-would-take][proxy]) 

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.
Blocks: 140751
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
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take] → [necko-would-take][proxy]
Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258
Priority: -- → P5
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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