TOR_SOCKS_HOST, TOR_SOCKS_PORT regression

[proper]

TBB 2.3.25-2 not affected.
TBB 2.3.25-3 not tested (not available for download).
TBB 2.3.25-4 introduced this bug.

I am using /etc/environment on Debian Wheezy.

TOR_SOCKS_HOST="192.168.0.10"
TOR_SOCKS_PORT="9100"

_{(I am using a patched startup script, which starts "./App/Firefox/firefox --profile Data/profile" instead of "./App/vidalia --datadir Data/Vidalia/ -style Cleanlooks".)}

When Tor Browser starts, it automatically opens ​https://check.torproject.org/?lang=en-US&small=1&uptodate=1 as expected but says:

The proxy server is refusing connections
Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections.
Check the proxy settings to make sure that they are correct.
Contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is
working.

All other pages are working.

​https://check.torproject.org/ can not be reached until Tor Browser is restarted. Before the browser gets restarted it always says "The proxy server is refusing connections" even when trying to reload or in new tabs.

After Tor Browser has been restarted, everything works.

[mikeperry]

This is technically an issue with HTTPS-Everywhere and Firefox's proxy behavior... Firefox 17 now caches proxy settings for some reason, and this fact in combination with HTTPS-Everywhere's tor test, followed by the SOCKS settings change causes check.tp.o to get stuck at the previous SOCKS settings until you restart.

[proper]

I have a workaround. (The old trick.)

/home/user/tor-browser_en-US/Data/profile/user.js

user_pref("extensions.torbutton.use_privoxy", false);
user_pref("extensions.torbutton.settings_method", "custom");
user_pref("extensions.torbutton.socks_host", "192.168.0.10");
user_pref("extensions.torbutton.socks_port", 9100);
user_pref("network.proxy.socks", "192.168.0.10");
user_pref("network.proxy.socks_port", 9100);
user_pref("extensions.torbutton.custom.socks_host", "192.168.0.10");
user_pref("extensions.torbutton.custom.socks_port", 9100);

It works.

But if you could fix this TOR_SOCKS_HOST, TOR_SOCKS_PORT regression, that would be awesome.

[arma]

To be clear: is this ticket the explanation for all those other TBB users who are reporting "The proxy server is refusing connections" issues too?

I am unclear because the original ticket sure looks like somebody doing something nonstandard.

[mo]

Most users that report this message are overwriting their old bundle. This keeps the old custom profile, with SOCKS Port 9050 set. -> fail.

[teor]

Set all open tickets without a severity to "Normal"

[traumschule]

It's easy to test if this still happens, but i don't want to close my browser right now :)