Bug#676286: iceweasel: automatic proxy configuration settings not respected

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Al Grimstad wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 10.0.5esr-1
> Followup-For: Bug #676286
> 
> I'm experiencing a variant of this bug in up-to-date testing (wheezy).
> iceweasel does not respect a manually configured system proxy (System
> Settings->Network->Proxy). The bug report claims that this works but proxy via
> url doesn't. That's not correct. The only way to have a proxy in iceweasel is
> to configure it within iceweasel. This is a regression from iceweasel in
> squeeze.

Do you mean "Use system proxy settings"? If you do, that's a different
problem, and the problem is that gnome moved where it stores the info,
and iceweasel doesn't handle the new location (iirc).

Mike