I've found that SuSE has support for this. So I borrowed the patch "gconf-backend.patch" from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.5.0.4/MozillaFirefox-1.5.0.4-0.1.src.rpm, fixed minor conflicts to make it apply cleanly to firefox-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6.06 and built a new package. It's working very nice for me for some time now.
The resultant patch is attached below. To test it, apply the patch to the package's source and add "--enable-gconf" to CONFIGURE_OPTIONS in debian/rules before building. After installing the package, make sure you have "config.use_system_prefs" set to "true", otherwise this functionality remains disabled. It would be nice if we would have this support in Edgy. -- firefox(-gnome-support) should get proxy from gconf https://launchpad.net/bugs/23369 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
