875285 - Change in proxy settings requires restart of firefox

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[amitt]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

I went to tools->Options->network->settings and changed the proxy settings from "No Proxy" to "Automatic proxy configuration URL" and provided the valid value and clicked on OK and again ok on options page. 


Actual results:

After the chnage i opened new tab and a url but it coudnt load. I closed my firefox and reopened and everything started working fine


Expected results:

Ideally the proxy setting must have been picked up and start loading pages from net

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

You have to click the Reload button next to the Automatic proxy configuration URL textbox.  If you did that and it still didn't work, then please report back.

See:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/advanced-settings-browsing-network-updates-encryption#w_connection-settings-dialog

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945446

Comment 2

[amitt]

Verified but dosent work for me even after reload. 

I also had one suggestion : 

1. When we change the proxy setting to "Automatic proxy configuration URL" the reload is disabled. So to reload again i have to go to options and do a reload. 

Why cant firefox relaod automatically if it can dynamically pick up No proxy value.