Bug#407927: iceape: proxy configuration disabled

[Armando Romero]

Dear Hendrik-Jan,

first, if software does not allow me to change proxy settings, I do
think that is bug and shall be improved.

And if there is error with profile, iceape shall correct it or at least
give a warning what is wrong.

You have assumptions that I have messed up with the profile and that was
not determined at all. I understand so far that you have no correct
information why I cannot setup proxy.

Permissions are setup correctly.

I have manually deleted all proxy settings from prefs.js and nothing
changes. When some file is wrong software shall say it is wrong or
corrupted, but iceape simply disallow any changes without any information.

>thank you for the clarification.
>First of all, I understand your problem, but I don't think it is an
i>ceape bug. Profiles can get messed up for numerous reasons unrelated
t>o whether or not you use a newer version of a certain package.

>Now to your problem: if you go to: "about:config" in your browser and
>type as search "prox", you should get a listing of the current proxy
>settings. Basically all should be set to default. If not, make sure
>that they are, and restart iceape.
>If they are set to default I think you are missing some rights on your
>profile. You could try a "chown -R <username.group>" (as root)  on
>~/.mozilla