Re: Trouble connecting

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hello Beartooth,

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, beartooth wrote:

> access changes weirdly. Sometimes my main machine can get to email 
> only; sometimes it can't get to the Web, but my backup can; and for a 
> while today, it could get to the web with at least one browser, but 
> not with at least one other.

Sounds like you may want to go look for a different ISP... :-)

> Right now, on the main machine, Opera 8.5 works, but Epiphany 1.6.3 
> gets a box saying "The connection was refused when attempting to 
> contact the proxy server you have configured. Please check your proxy 
> settings and try again."
>
> I was lucky enough to find a mention of the URL about:config in a post
> here, and looked in it; the proxy settings there are the ones I use
> everywhere.

The proxy settings Epiphany listens to are in the GNOME control center. 
Look under the Desktop menu under Preferences, Network Proxy.
You can try to disable the proxy there.

> Also, if I change a setting in about:config, what do I do to make it 
> take?

about:config changes will be remembered automatically, but if you find 
a case where you absolutely need to use about:config in Epiphany, please 
file a bug - it shouldn't be necessary.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen