[tbb-bugs] #15800 [Tor Browser]: Unable to disable proxy in Tor Browser

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#15800: Unable to disable proxy in Tor Browser
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     Reporter:  supermario   |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Browser  |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Changes (by mcs):

 * cc: mikeperry (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 supermario]:
 > Thanks mcs. It's the setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns. Even when I
 am not using a proxy if that is set to true I get the proxy not found
 message. When I use normal firefox that setting does not seem to matter
 when proxy is disabled. Is that a bug?

 It is because of the fix we made for #5741.
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-
 browser-31.6.0esr-4.5-1&id=8c6604d2b776f0d8e33ed9130c5f5b8cf744bac8
 We could check that a proxy is enabled (network.proxy.type != 0) before
 disabling DNS but we can also just make sure people know to set
 network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to false.

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