Bug#407927: iceape: proxy configuration disabled

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

Dear Armando,

When I say that things are messed up in your profile, I certainly
didn't mean to imply that you did anything wrong. Profiles can be
messed up for a number of reasons. Things like extensions could be one
of the culprits.

When you install iceape and use it with an existing profile, iceape
simply applies those profile settings. You are right that it would be
nicer if there was some sort of "profile checker" that would inspect a
profile before use and give you a warning if something is wrong. As
far as I know, this doesn't exist.

As far as my suggestions go: as you yourself said this problem does
not occur on a new ("clean") profile,  all points towards something
being wrong somewhere in the existing profile.
As that profile is not generated by iceape, I'd say it's not an iceape
bug. Whether there's room for improvement on this product, is a whole
different question. I do think you are right and that profile handling
is definately a week point of iceape (an all other mozilla products
for that matter).

I'm sorry my suggestions didn't help. Maybe someone else here knows a fix?

best regards,

Hendrik-Jan

2007/1/23, Armando Romero <reportbug at 8128.biz>:
> 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
>