John A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 2 Jul 2003 03:37:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mac Laine) wrote:
>
> >On http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/faq.htm I found the hint how to
> >change preferences for the control by extracting the necessary lines
> >out of
> >
> >C:\WINNT\Profiles\...me...\Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Profiles\...me...\????????.slt\prefs.js
> >
> >and include them into
> >
> >\WINNT\Profiles\...me...\Anwendungsdaten\MozillaControl\profiles\MozillaControl\??????.slt\prefs.js
> >
> >But my proxy settings
> >
> >user_pref("network.proxy.type", 2);
> >user_pref("network.proxy.autoconfig_url","http://...my .pac file...");
> >
> >are ignored. Needless to say that these proxy settings works well with
> >Mozilla Version 1.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4)
> >Gecko/20030624) itself. I even tried to insert the proxy settings in
> >the file
> >
> >C:\Programme\GemeinsameDateien\mozilla.org\GRE\1.4f_2003062408\defaults\pref\all.js
> >
> >but nothing helped. I searched for all prefs.js user.js and all.js
> >files on C:\ and included my proxy settings. Nevertheless, the
> >Delphi-Example-Application webbrowser.exe
> >(http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/dbrowse.zip) using the control
> >always leads to "Error - 403 Access denied to destination
> >http://...:80"; when I try to open an external URL. Calling internal
> >URLs works well. Strangely, calling "about:config" leads to a blank
> >page. Only the header (Preference name |Status|...) is visible. Maybe
> >the control ignores all options.
> >
> >Any comments are wellcome.
>
> Proxy works okay for me, but I'm not using autoconfig.
>
> I also get a blank about:config page.
Thanks for your hint, that helped.
I changed my proxy settings to
user_pref("network.proxy.http", "...my Proxy URL...");
user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 80);
user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);
And now the Mozilla control shows also external URLs.
