93155 - visual proxy usage indicator

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Marcin Orlowski]

It'd be handy to have "Proxy" indicator appearing somewhere on the status
  bar (there're pleny of free space yet ;-), showing whenever the connection
  goes via proxy or directly

Comment 1

[Christian Reis]

Reporter, duping against a similar (but not exact same) bug for indicating proxy
in title bar. Please reopen if you feel wronged. :) Vote for that bug!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36305 ***

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Heh, not quite. A `proxy icon' (as in bug 36305) is an icon which acts as a 
proxy for the document, so you can drag it to your file manager or whatever to 
make a shortcut. It has nothing to do with proxy servers. Reopening.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I don't think it's worth having persistent display of proxy server usage in the 
Navigator window. Firstly, the most likely case for a proxy is that the proxy 
is used for all (or nearly all) URLs, so the indicator would be redundant most 
of the time. Secondly, for a large proportion of cases where a proxy is in 
effect, it is at large institutions (such as companies or universities) where 
most users are unaware of what a proxy is, let alone wanting to know when it's 
being used. And thirdly, the status bar is too cluttered already, and a
nearly-useless proxy usage indicator would only make it worse. Wontfix.