Telling Firefox to use "system" setting does not pick up the correct proxy settings. But in system settings, proxy is set to "automatic", with no url given, so as indicated this should result in wpad getting used. The proxy test tool, from libbproxy-bin, also fails to pick up wpad settings, returning a direct connection for any url.
I suspect that this is because I do not run NetworkManager (and get the resulting whine from the system settings network screen). My network interface is bridged with a VM virtual network, because of that the network interface is not managed by NetworkManager; and when it starts up without any networks to manage, this results in Firefox always coming up in offline mode. For that reason, I have to keep NetworkManager off. Always having Firefox start in offline mode is annoying. But I suspect that this results in gnome not bothering to check for a wpad script. Is my suspicion correct, if so is there a way around it.
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