I did find that page, actually. I used the user.js file with the preferences found in my first post.
one of the lines (the first) appeared in the prefs.js file, but the others do not. i tried both 'user_pref' and 'pref' as the begining. Simon Schampijer wrote: > This is what you can do on 656. > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity#Proxy_Settings > These are the instructions for the proxy settings - but you can easily > adopt them to get your case working I hope. > Simon > Jacob Haddon wrote: >> ah. well, then perhaps tonight i will revert to the shipped build and try it >> again. >> >> is there no way to edit the preferences manually? i had thought that user.js >> would fix the problem. >> >> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Jacob Haddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I looked at about:config, but did not see the setting. admittedly i have >>>> never used about:config, so i, just now, read up on it. used a version of >>>> portable firefox here on my computer to test how to add in this preference >>>> and was successful. >>>> >>>> i went to try it on the OLPC. here is what happens. i go to about:config. >>>> right click, i get the menu, i select New then String and then there is >>>> nothing that follows. >>> I guess you are using 656? There was a bug with dialogs which has been >>> fixed in Update.1... >>> Marco >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. >> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel