From: Wolfgang Rosenauer
Subject: Do not use gconf for proxy settings if not running within Gnome

Index: toolkit/system/unixproxy/nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/system/unixproxy/nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.1

diff --git a/toolkit/system/unixproxy/nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp b/toolkit/system/unixproxy/nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp
--- a/toolkit/system/unixproxy/nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp
+++ b/toolkit/system/unixproxy/nsUnixSystemProxySettings.cpp
@@ -50,22 +50,28 @@ nsUnixSystemProxySettings::GetMainThread
   // dbus prevents us from being threadsafe, but this routine should not block anyhow
   *aMainThreadOnly = true;
   return NS_OK;
 }
 
 nsresult
 nsUnixSystemProxySettings::Init()
 {
-  mSchemeProxySettings.Init(5);
-  mGConf = do_GetService(NS_GCONFSERVICE_CONTRACTID);
-  mGSettings = do_GetService(NS_GSETTINGSSERVICE_CONTRACTID);
-  if (mGSettings) {
-    mGSettings->GetCollectionForSchema(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("org.gnome.system.proxy"),
-                                       getter_AddRefs(mProxySettings));
+  // If this is a GNOME session, load gconf and try to use its preferences.
+  // If gconf is not available (which would be stupid) we'll proceed as if
+  // this was not a GNOME session, using *_PROXY environment variables.
+  const char* sessionType = PR_GetEnv("DESKTOP_SESSION");
+  if (sessionType && !strcmp(sessionType, "gnome")) {
+    mSchemeProxySettings.Init(5);
+    mGConf = do_GetService(NS_GCONFSERVICE_CONTRACTID);
+    mGSettings = do_GetService(NS_GSETTINGSSERVICE_CONTRACTID);
+    if (mGSettings) {
+      mGSettings->GetCollectionForSchema(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("org.gnome.system.proxy"),
+                                         getter_AddRefs(mProxySettings));
+    }
   }
 
   return NS_OK;
 }
 
 bool
 nsUnixSystemProxySettings::IsProxyMode(const char* aMode)
 {