834039 - "Use system proxy settings" doesn't work in KDE

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Sparhawk]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130117041608

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to make Firefox use KDE system proxy settings. Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings > Use system proxy settings


Actual results:

Web pages would not load.


Expected results:

KDE system proxy settings should have been applied and web pages loaded. System proxy settings were correct, since Konqueror works fine. If I manually apply the proxy settings to Firefox, this also works.

Comment 1

[Sparhawk]

N.B. a bug already exists that claims that a restart of Firefox is sufficient and necessary to utilise proxy settings, but restart does nothing for me.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632655

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

What are your system details ?
Is gconf installed on your system ?

Comment 3

[Sparhawk]

KDE 4.9.4
Ubuntu 12.10
Firefox 18.0.1
As for gconf, I've got gconftool and gconftool-2, so I think it must be installed.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>As for gconf, I've got gconftool and gconftool-2, so I think it must be installed.
I think in that case the gconf settings are used

Comment 5

[Sparhawk]

Oh ok! That's surprising, and not what I'd expect it to refer to for "system" proxy settings for KDE.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

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

Comment 7

[laurent combe]

i suspect it's a proxy with authentication
if it's not too late can you confirm this point

IMHO this bug is similar to : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582359

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Moving bug to Core/Networking: Proxy.