Comment 16 for bug 1194841

Wolfgang, thanks - I still can't reproduce.

here's what I did.. I disable gconf and gsettings like this

 nsresult
 nsUnixSystemProxySettings::Init()
 {
   mSchemeProxySettings.Init(5);
+ return NS_OK;
+
   mGConf = do_GetService(NS_GCONFSERVICE_CONTRACTID);
   mGSettings = do_GetService(NS_GSETTINGSSERVICE_CONTRACTID);

and then I set http_proxy environment var to a real proxy and loaded ipchicken.com to confirm the env var code was being used. And it was.

I then deleted the env var and reran firefox.

I confirmed that nsUnixSystemProxySettings::GetProxyForURI() now returned an NS_ERROR_FAILURE error as you described. But that didn't cause a problem - firefox connected without a proxy just fine - which is the behavior you say ff17 has (and sounds correct to me).

what are we doing differently?