[ubuntu-uk] proxy setup for work

[Alan Pope]

On 30 June 2011 09:48, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most applications *should* use the system settings. You're basically setting
> the environment variable http_proxy in your session, which Firefox
> definitely uses.

Indeed. Also note that some applications do _not_ use a proxy at all
such as Gwibber and Ubuntu One file sync.

Cheers,
Al.