Proxy isn't read by chrome from kde4

[George Liaskos]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> "Change Proxy Settings" button brings up kde4 "Proxy - KDE Control Module"
> screen.
> When I change to "Manually specify the proxy" and set the proxy for all
> protocols to 109.251.143.22 port 8080 abd hit Apply opening another
> google.com instance shows that proxy isn't used. With this proxy Google
> shows with "Ukraine" icon.
>
> Not sure if this is FreeBSD specific or generic with kde4. But in chrome on
> Ubuntu proxy is read from gnome settings there.
>
> chrome-17.0.963.56
>
> Yuri

As a workaround you can use --proxy-server at the command line, bapt
has patched chromium to use kqueue to detect proxy settings changes
under KDE.
Maybe something changed in the way which KDE stores the proxy
settings, i will take a look at it.

Regards,
George