Bug 2177806 - Please enable libproxy support
Summary: Please enable libproxy support
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 37
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-03-13 16:10 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2024-01-12 23:02 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firefox-112.0-1.fc39
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2024-01-12 23:02:21 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Michael Catanzaro 2023-03-13 16:10:19 UTC
Hi, please build Firefox with libproxy support enabled, e.g.:

echo "ac_add_options --enable-libproxy" >> .mozconfig

Thanks! Currently libproxy is a bit sketchy but it has been rewritten from scratch so an improved version will be landing soon.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2023-03-21 09:48:24 UTC
Can you be more specific which libproxy version we should use? We may need to support only correct ones.

Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2023-03-21 12:26:01 UTC
Fedora only ships one version of libproxy, so you don't have much choice. ;)

The rewritten libproxy will have the same API/ABI as the current version so Firefox won't need to know what version is in use.

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2023-03-21 13:45:41 UTC
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #2)
> Fedora only ships one version of libproxy, so you don't have much choice. ;)
> 
> The rewritten libproxy will have the same API/ABI as the current version so
> Firefox won't need to know what version is in use.

Okay, and is the new version shipped in Fedora right now?

Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2023-03-21 16:02:40 UTC
Nope, but again it doesn't matter because the API is the same so it makes no difference to Firefox which version gets used.

Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2023-03-21 16:16:29 UTC
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #0)
> Hi, please build Firefox with libproxy support enabled, e.g.:
> 
> echo "ac_add_options --enable-libproxy" >> .mozconfig
> 
> Thanks! Currently libproxy is a bit sketchy but it has been rewritten from
> scratch so an improved version will be landing soon.

I'm a bit confused. Can you state which "improved version" will land soon so we make sure we enable it?
I expect we don't want to enable the old (sketchy) one, right? (No matter which API it uses).

Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2023-03-21 16:56:45 UTC
It should be safe enough to enable now.

That said, the new and improved version will likely be called 2.0 (TBD).

Comment 7 Martin Stransky 2023-03-21 17:15:02 UTC
Added to 111.0-2 builds.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2023-04-06 06:51:05 UTC
FEDORA-2023-824aa4a0fb has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-824aa4a0fb

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2023-04-06 06:56:52 UTC
FEDORA-2023-824aa4a0fb has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Martin Stransky 2023-05-19 11:10:03 UTC
Will be reverted due to regressions:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207469
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1833088

Comment 11 Martin Stransky 2023-05-19 11:10:28 UTC
Reverted in 113.0.1-3 builds

Comment 12 Aoife Moloney 2023-11-23 01:26:41 UTC
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Comment 13 Aoife Moloney 2024-01-12 23:02:21 UTC
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