Please vote for Bug that makes Firefox/Iceweasel hang with auto-proxy configuration (wpad)
Dear Debian edu users and developers.
It's been 2.5 years ago, when I joined an even older bug
report for Firefox 2.0. These days I had to find
out that it isn't fixed in 4.0 nor 5.0.
For oranisations like us schools, this is a real show
stopper, as users will have to wait for seconds until
a new page opens (and in this time the whole Firefox/
Iceweasel GUI is frozen).
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853
This bug is only visible if you use wpad.dat plus
"auto detect proxy settings" in your browser. To
witness the effect, just enter "test" in some
search engine, and then click the first 4 hits
using the mouse key in the middle (hence opening
separate tabs for each hit). I bet you won't get
to the 3rd hit, because you will witness the
first freeze.
The only work around is to use explicit proxy settings,
which might be feasable - but complicated for big
companies and schools. This is too bad, because
the wide range of personal users don't suffer from
this bug while potential multiplier of free software
are deterred.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853
Please get more attention for this bug by voting
for it, especially if you are concered yourself.
Thank you and kind regards
Ralf
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