Comment #37 on issue 266 by [email protected]: Chrome uses Windows' proxy settings http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=266
Clearly you feel strongly about this. Maybe my comment wasn't clear. Let me try again and answer some of the other issues as well. 1. Does this mean Linux version is impossible? It just boggled my mind that an open-source project where you can see for yourself all of the engineers working on Linux, you can see all the Linux related check-ins, and you can follow the build instructions to build it yourself that somehow people doubt that we are working on a Linux version. We have spoken clearly about our approach at http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html Deciding to use the OS native configuration for proxies has zero impact on our ability to produce Chrome for any number of operating systems. 2. You just made FOO completely impossible! I suggest that if you look over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config and think carefully about how you want to approach your proxy settings you can probably accomplish much of what you want through the existing mechanism. It is true that you will need to write a little Javascript to accomplish your goals. 3. So now we can never have this super important feature? One of the great benefits of being an open source project is that the community can express its needs and goals by contributing its own code. If this area is very important to you and you have a great design then submit the patch. You don't need to have an @google.com to become an @chromium.org engineer and we would love to work with you. 4. Is contributing the code the only way I can get this feature? You don't have to be a c++ coder to help get something you want. When the feature requires UI the team will need to work through lots of ideas on how to approach the problem. There needs to be UI that makes sense on Windows, Mac and Linux and the solution may be a little different for each. Drawing up and submitting mocks to the bug is a valuable contribution. Having the mocks doesn't mean @google.com engineers will work on it but it may make it a lot easier for first time contributors of @chromium.org engineers to take it on. 5. Seriously? You are not going to provide FOO?! From my perspective PAC files provide you with enormous flexibility. If you are an advanced enough user to know to ask about lots of proxy flexibility then you are probably more than capable of writing a PAC file that does exactly what you want. If the API in PAC does not do enough then tell me what is missing. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
