[OLPC-AU] Browse activity, XO 1.5 and an authenticating proxy server

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 18 October 2010 16:09, IanCunningham <ian.cunningham at nt.gov.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When trying to access the Internet on an XO 1.5 with os852, firmware
> Q3A50 and Browse-108, the Browse activity does not prompt for username
> and password. It Internet site cannot be accessed. The system proxy
> settings have been set in Gnome and Firefox works both in Gnome and
> from the terminal prompt in Sugar. I noted that about:config cannot be
> modified in Browse. We can browse intranet sites which do not require
> a proxy. The same thing occurs with an XO-1 running os852 firmware
> Q2E45 and Browse-108.  Is there a way to show Browse the proxy server
> address?

This is now being tracked at http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/90

Sridhar