Oh well. Many thanks.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Meredith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looks like this feature is broken on the mac. See
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80363 for details.
>
> David Goldman wrote:
>
> > I'm using mozilla 0.9.2 on mac os X; I'm not sure if this is an os X
> > specific problem, but I suspect not. I'm a student at UC Berkeley; to
> > access online resources like encyclopedias, journal databases, etc.,
> > from my non-campus ISP I use the campus proxy service which requires
> > automatic proxy configuration. I was excited to see the automatic proxy
> > config field in the mozilla preferences; but when I tried to get it to
> > work I couldn't. When I hit the reload button in the prefs dialog
> > nothing happened, and I saw no network traffic. So the app wasn't doing
> > anything. And when I quit the program with the proxy config url saved
> > and try to start up mozilla again before anything loads I get an
> > "application unexpectedly quit" error.
> > Does anyone know if this feature is missing from mozilla, or broken,
> > or if there are any plans to support it in the future? At the present
> > time I have to start up netscape 4.76 in classic or os 9.1 to get
> > automatic proxy config support and do research, which is a bit of a
> > pain. Thanks.
> > -Dave
> >
