Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox
How to reproduce the problem: - Connect to a network that doesn't provide a http://wpad/wpad.dat file with proxy settings - Go to Edit/preferences/Advanced/Connection settings and turn on automatic proxy detection >From now on Firefox 4 tries to download the proxy settings from http://wpad/wpad.dat every time you click on a link. And it every time waits for the timeout of the domain name server telling there is no http://wpad before proceeding to downloading the actual internet page. Not really a bug, maybe. But makes surfing in the internet extremely slow and is at the same time hard to hunt down; Did never experience this with Firefox 3 but - did never actually connect the network before I am in right now. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: firefox 4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-5.13-generic 2.6.37-rc2 Uname: Linux 2.6.37-5-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Nov 19 12:38:47 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty -- Firefox is slow if automatic detection of proxy is on, but there is no proxy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677417 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
