Re: A weird thing about network connections in Icecat (and Firefox) on Guix

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Unsure if it's related, but I can reproduce this recipe on my Guix
> System with the Nyxt browser.
>
> - Enable Tor service.
> - Start Nyxt.
> - Enable proxy-mode over Tor.
> - Go to https://check.torproject.org/ to confirm it's working.
> - Put system to sleep for a while.
> - Wake up the the system and browse something from _an existing buffer_:
>   most of the time it fails to load.
>
> Restarting the Tor service and/or opening a new buffer fixes it.
>
> Any idea?

Curious, except that afaict I shouldn't be running a proxy here, and
afaik neither is my spouse, who didn't experience this behavior until
the Guix switchover either (and isn't running the tor service atm).

I did wonder if this was proxy-like failure behavior though.