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The proxy server is refusing connections

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sas300
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I have been running Firefox version 3.6.12. since the version was made available and up until today I have had no problems with it. For no reason that I can discern I now receive the “The proxy server is refusing connections” error every time I try to navigate to any website. When I open the Tools/Options/Network/Settings the Manual proxy configuration is selected. If I then select any of the other options (No proxy, Auto-Detect or Use system) I can then successfully navigate to websites. However when I close that Firefox session and start a new session the same problem re-occurs with the Manual proxy option selected again. I do a lot of web-development in ASP.NET and use Firefox for debugging, so I have several developer tools installed but the installation has been running smoothly prior to this problem. Any ideas?

I have been running Firefox version 3.6.12. since the version was made available and up until today I have had no problems with it. For no reason that I can discern I now receive the “The proxy server is refusing connections” error every time I try to navigate to any website. When I open the Tools/Options/Network/Settings the Manual proxy configuration is selected. If I then select any of the other options (No proxy, Auto-Detect or Use system) I can then successfully navigate to websites. However when I close that Firefox session and start a new session the same problem re-occurs with the Manual proxy option selected again. I do a lot of web-development in ASP.NET and use Firefox for debugging, so I have several developer tools installed but the installation has been running smoothly prior to this problem. Any ideas?

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cor-el
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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

sas300
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I reinstalled Firefox and the problem ceased. I was unable to connect to that link, it kept timing out returning a 110 error. I will try again later.

I just now determined that the problem was caused by the proxy settings that I originally set up for Fiddler being lost somehow, then when I tried using Fiddler the other day it attempted to use its default setting of 127.0.0.1 which will not work. Since I had Fiddler set to “Force Traffic” it reset the profile each time I started Firefox. I have reconfigured the proxy settings for Fiddler and everything is working again.

Thanks for the info

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theend118
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This worked for me. Thanks.

To find 'force traffic to fiddler' option, to go Firefox -> Tools -> Monitor with Fiddler -> Force Traffic to Fiddler. Change this to 'Do not use fiddler'.