Firefox 3 Proxy Server Refused Connection Problem

If you playing around with proxy stuffs without knowing wtf proxy is, you might end up to a problem like me. Suddenly, my Firefox rejecting to connect to the internet. What a frustration seconds. However, i found out that a proxy app i tried out earlier set my Firefox’s proxy to ‘manual’.

proxy server refused connection

To fix it out, simply click on (updated by reader Red on comment below) Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Settings. Then simply tick a ‘No Proxy’.

That’s it, enjoy Firefox and the internet.

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88 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by goblinbox 16th October, 2008 at 2:27 am

    Thanks for the article!

  2. Posted by Robin Malau 16th October, 2008 at 2:35 am

    Hello Goblinbox, so glad if i can help.

    Cheers.

  3. Posted by Arun 19th October, 2008 at 9:01 am

    I did encounter the problem and fixed it with this article. Thanks.

  4. Posted by Igsy 25th October, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    TNX!!!!!!!!

  5. Posted by tommy 29th October, 2008 at 7:02 am

    yes but every time i restart Firefox the same thing keeps happening..?

  6. Posted by Robin Malau 29th October, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    Hi Tommy, you might need to try creating new PROFILE. This post has a detailed instruction oh how to create new Firefox 3 profile.

  7. Posted by Chris 27th November, 2008 at 2:21 am

    Hey thanks a million. My system had been down for 2 days and I googled to your fix. 2 minutes and sorted.
    Great. Bookmarking your page and will drop by often.
    Chris

  8. Posted by Robby Patterson 27th November, 2008 at 3:45 am

    Damn thanks your my hero….why doesn’t Foxfire have this in there help section offline….lol….keep rocking dude.

  9. Posted by Robin Malau 27th November, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Cheers @Chris & @Robby.

  10. Posted by Jim 2nd December, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    thank you so much, you are a legend ;)

  11. Posted by Robin Malau 2nd December, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Glad it works for you Jim :)

  12. Posted by Christie 17th December, 2008 at 4:23 am

    !!!! Thank you !!!!
    I’ve gone without internet on that computer for 2 weeks now because I was too busy to stop and figure it out. But you’ve done the work for me. I appreciate your posting. Merry Holidays.

  13. Posted by Robin Malau 17th December, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Cheers Christie.

  14. Posted by Experta 17th December, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Hey.. thanks a ton… the issue was driving me crazy

  15. Posted by J.J. 17th December, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Thanks…this was of help!

  16. Posted by matt 24th December, 2008 at 5:51 am

    thanks mate my sister in law asked me to sort this problem for her. yours was the first post i saw. awesome. sorry but i took the credit lol excellent post tho.

  17. Posted by Robin Malau 24th December, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Lol. Yeah it happens Matt, but i’m glad to help you solve her problem.

  18. Posted by mohamad 29th December, 2008 at 6:53 am

    Thanks man
    you help me
    god help you

  19. Posted by Oliver 18th January, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    You Are A God Thanks

  20. Posted by JOphil 22nd January, 2009 at 1:31 am

    thank you so much….

  21. Posted by JWilliam 10th February, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Hey Robin – thanks this fixed my proxy problem but I have a new problem…”Failed to Connect.” WTF? I was just checking my email and Stumbling when it happened. Not messing with proxys, not changing any settings. Other computers are connected to the internet on the same server, whats the deal?

  22. Posted by Robin Malau 10th February, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    Hey JWilliam, glad it works for you but also sorry for your failed to connect. I think you should just check your network internet connection then.

  23. Posted by Red 13th February, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Thanks, my freind did need this help! :)
    You missed one thing out thought
    It’s Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Settings and then no proxy, you left out options ;)
    A big thanks to you!!!

  24. Posted by Robin Malau 13th February, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Red, sorry. I fixed the post.

    Wonder why noone complains lol. Thanks mate!

  25. Posted by Chris 17th February, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Thank you for the advice.

    Sherry

  26. Posted by Nick 27th February, 2009 at 3:09 am

    Thanks alot..had the same problem at work.

  27. Posted by foxwozfukd 6th March, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    THANKS A LOT :)

  28. Posted by Adam R. 13th March, 2009 at 5:36 am

    I was having the same issue until I read your comment. Thanks for the help. Firefox now works.

    Thanks again,

    Adam

  29. Posted by Mr.N 17th March, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Thanks for help.You rock

  30. Posted by Niwat 23rd March, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Thank you very much.

  31. Posted by lili 24th March, 2009 at 9:07 am

    OMG THANKS MAN!!
    YOU SAVED MY LIFE =D!!!!!!

  32. Posted by Susan 26th March, 2009 at 6:51 am

    Thanks for sharing. I have used Firefox for well over a year with no problems on my Verizon Wireless broadband card. Then suddenly it stopped working mid session yesterday afternoon. I hadn’t “Played” with ANY settings. However, your “fix” works just fine! Thank you for sharing, I’m back in action! =)

  33. Posted by abubacker 27th March, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    thanks a lot habeebi……………

  34. Posted by aghaey Herati 3rd April, 2009 at 3:05 pm

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    it means thatr u r so weet like candy can…

    shokran ya kebeer
    kollak 7arakat

  35. Posted by aghaey Herati 3rd April, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    thanx alot
    u r de best of de best

    i have been searching for a solution

    and i found it at ur side at ur webpage

  36. Posted by Robin Malau 3rd April, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks for the nice words :D

  37. Posted by AMk 3rd April, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    Thanks a lot buddy :D

  38. Posted by chellappan 6th April, 2009 at 6:51 am

    Thanks

  39. Posted by stonehead 15th April, 2009 at 3:43 am

    Wow Im so glad for this posting I’ve missed firefox so much IE is pants!! thanks alot for this post!!!!!

  40. Posted by Charlene 15th April, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    I LOOOOVE YOU! you saved me. dang.

  41. Posted by Robin Malau 15th April, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    Love you too Charlene. Lol.

  42. Posted by Shannon 16th April, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    I OFFICIALLY LOVE YOU!!
    Thank you very much. I absolutely hate internet explorer, was near heartbroken when my fire fox was playing up. Cheers! x

  43. Posted by Manny 25th April, 2009 at 12:27 am

    Thanks a lot bro, this was very helpful!

  44. Posted by Raja Rizwan 26th April, 2009 at 10:12 pm

    Thanks!!!
    while reading this article i found the way out of this problem, thanks again!!!!

  45. Posted by Awzee 27th April, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Thanks Mate

  46. Posted by RIZ 1st May, 2009 at 5:45 am

    Thank You sooo much, its helpd sooo much, i can use facebook chat easier now! thanks ur a *!

  47. Posted by Riz 1st May, 2009 at 5:46 am

    Thank You soo mucj, ur a *!

  48. Posted by Alysha 2nd May, 2009 at 3:55 am

    Thank you SO much!

  49. Posted by b0b17o0 5th May, 2009 at 3:05 am

    Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!

  50. Posted by Nitin 6th May, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Cheers!!! Thank you so much!!!

  51. Posted by meme 8th May, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Thanks so much I was so mad!!! but you saved the day!!!

  52. Posted by Benedict 8th May, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!

    I had no idea what I’d done and I was absolutely freaking out without internet connection for the past 2days coz I needed to meet crazy deadlines…then I found this,
    Just. Thank You so much.

    Bless you.

  53. Posted by Erik 11th May, 2009 at 5:58 am

    You are the best, many thanks, Hey, perhaps Firefox should consult with you about the simplicity of explaining!
    Thanks again!
    Erik

  54. Posted by Robin Malau 11th May, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Haha Erik that’s brilliant. I think it’s just as simple as that :D

  55. Posted by Raina Van Cleave 11th May, 2009 at 10:32 am

    I used to have tech support when I had job and now I just google everything. Thanks for the tip–it fixed FF for me during the recovery of my computer melt down! :)

  56. Posted by JJ 12th May, 2009 at 6:08 am

    Thnx buddy…thnx a loooot…!!!

  57. Posted by ahmed 12th May, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    Thanks bro, helped a lot.

  58. Posted by Hyder 13th May, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    Thanks. You helped alot.

  59. Posted by Bryan 13th May, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    You saved my ass. thanks so much. i was going to reformat my whole computer. thanks for the help

  60. Posted by terry 17th May, 2009 at 10:20 am

    ok when i do this , it then says cannot find rar file and i stiil cannot connect, also typing firefoxe.exe-profilemanager into the run box did nothing, it says i was refering to a location thAT doesnt exist?

    help

  61. Posted by Zach D. 18th May, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    thanks so much man. I heard that using a proxy server would let me use RapidShare a lot without it needing to make me wait, so ya this fixed it! Thanks!

  62. Posted by HUNGFRAG 19th May, 2009 at 11:54 am

    wickedly simple, cheers alot

    :)

  63. Posted by apai 19th May, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    thks so much..i can enjoy my internet now…..

  64. Posted by arun showri 21st May, 2009 at 3:13 am

    thnk u

  65. Posted by Alexzarn 22nd May, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    DUDE thank you so much Ive got all my fav on firefox you are a G

  66. Posted by Al 23rd May, 2009 at 7:46 am

    Thanks man, some virus reconfigured my firefox settings and having installed/uninstalled it a few times, I got frustrated. I had to google this through IE and finally got your site. This did the trick – thank for making my day and saving time as I though this is going to be a long fight. Thanks Again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  67. Posted by Vutana 23rd May, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Thanks

  68. Posted by Dhia 23rd May, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    thank you so much, you are really helpful.

  69. Posted by Heather 27th May, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    I think Firefox is great, but installed a new program and saw that same proxy message & no connectivity. Followed your instructions (number 1 on a google search!) and they solved the problem instantly! THANK YOU!

  70. Posted by Mishap 28th May, 2009 at 4:27 am

    FREAKING THANKS!!! THIS REALLY HELPED!!! ^_^ I couldn’t have internet for a few days if it weren’t for this!!

  71. Posted by daveyjones 28th May, 2009 at 6:35 am

    fixed mine also ! thanks a million

  72. Posted by daveyjones 28th May, 2009 at 6:36 am

    thanx worked perfect!

  73. Posted by joshkarol 30th May, 2009 at 6:28 am

    Hey, thanks for sharing. I tried that, but after I did that, I refreshed the page, and it says that the adress can not be found. And according to the icon on my taskbar, I’m connected to the internet. Please help me, this has been a problem on my computer for weeks. Other computers work, except for mine. What should I do?

  74. Posted by Robin Malau 30th May, 2009 at 6:39 am

    @joshkarol Try change your browser, does it works?

  75. Posted by joshkarol 30th May, 2009 at 6:48 am

    No, it says the same for Safari, and Internet Explorer. Heres the EXACT problem.

    I’ve been having the same persistent problem with my internet connection. One thing, I’m not connected to the internet, since it says I am on the task bar. Then when I go to mozilla, it said that it refused proxy connection. Then I went to the settings, and chose No Proxy. Then I refreshed the page, and it said it couldn’t find the page. I’ve reseted the modem, and the router. I’m connected wirelessly, (PC) There are 3 computers in my household, and all but this one works. And another thing, my computer sends out packets, but never receives any. I even tried installing norton in case of a virus, but somehow, it uninstalls itself. So thank you to whoever can help me solve this long issue

  76. Posted by nav 1st June, 2009 at 11:41 am

    thanks so much

  77. Posted by Meriem 2nd June, 2009 at 11:51 am

    You saved me!! Thanks so much! ♥

  78. Posted by Meriem 2nd June, 2009 at 11:52 am

    By the way, here’s a link for how to fix it for Internet Explorer:

    http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/internet-connection-problems-proxy-server-settings-messed-up/

  79. Posted by C.R.I.$.I.$. aka Mr. Swagger 14th June, 2009 at 1:17 am

    The answer by Robin Malau was really helpful. Cheers. It worked

  80. Posted by Erica 14th June, 2009 at 8:55 am

    THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!! I was getting frustrated and was about to cry!! That was simple, and also VERY helpful.

    THANK YOU!!!

  81. Posted by g 14th June, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    your the best man thanks alot!!!!!!!!

  82. Posted by Han 15th June, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

  83. Posted by Grey 15th June, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    thanks bro, fixed my problem in seconds!

  84. Posted by Mark 15th June, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Thank you soooo much. Truly a smart man(or woman)

  85. Posted by hitman47 18th June, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    THANKS
    THAT WORKS FINE
    gr8 work…….

  86. Posted by FixMaster 24th June, 2009 at 2:59 am

    REALLY THX TO U..

    its save my time, actually i want to reinstall this firefox..but the hero come and save me..thx a lot

  87. Posted by Angela 26th June, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Thanks so much!
    This really helped

  88. Posted by BigMike 30th June, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I’m at a friends house. He has IE (which sucks). I downloaded mozilla and went to run it and NOTHING happens. It won’t open at all. Absolutely nothing happens at all. No window comes up, nothing. I uninstalled and reinstalled it 10 times. I rebooted each time and NOTHING.

    Any help will be appreciated.

    Shal ‘ aam
    AAPiY
    Mike

    P.S., I’ve been using mozilla firefox in my two computers at home with no problems whatsoever for years.

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