Comment 3 for bug 876839

Good find, yeah that sounds similar. Probably these apps just don't use gsettings yet. Maybe a bugfix then would just be to special case: any string present in the server fields indicates HTTP proxy on when gluing gsettings -> gconf.

Thanks for the prompt response. Most of the people where I work just use Firefox so they can set the proxy manually, but I prefer Chrome (which forces you to use system settings). I had to regress the gconf settings of 11.4 vs. 11.10 before I could figure out why it wasn't working.