In my testing, it does NOT work. When setting config.use_system_prefs the settings you listed become "locked", and the firefox network dialog becomes grayed out. The settings from gconf is however not used, in about:config e.g. type is 0 (no proxy) and the various host fields are blank.
I have tried to get debug info using export NSPR_LOG_FILE=/tmp/firefox-debug.log export NSPR_LOG_MODULES="all:5" firefox but the only mention of system-pref is: -1221551264[805c548]: Loaded library /usr/lib/firefox/components/libsystem-pref.so (load lib) Currently compiling firefox with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug to see if that makes any difference to the debug output. -- firefox(-gnome-support) should get proxy from gconf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/23369 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
