Comment 15 for bug 1194841

(In reply to Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] from comment #1)
> Can you be more clear on what the behavior was in ff17 and how that changed
> in 18? Thanks. (i.e. you got an error before and now it connects without a
> proxy? or vice versa?)

Ok, sorry for being unclear ;-)

In my test case (and real usage case) I have no proxy at all. I do not have GConf/GSettings so that it falls back to check environment variables.
With FF17 that just worked with proxy.type=5 (the default). With Firefox 18 (actually I noticed the changed behaviour with Thunderbird 18b1) I'm not able to access any HTTP site at all. I only get the error page that my proxy server cannot be accessed.
If GConf is available and used (even if no proxy is set up) everything works fine -> no proxy used at all