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Is there hope that Firefox / Firefox Focus could use the Samsung "GlobalProxy" setting when set?

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Yves Le Jan
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With proxy settings no longer being programatically available for existing Wi-Fi settings from Android 6, the use of the alternative GlobalProxy setting on Samsung devices has been a helpful alternative to enable Web protection for children when needed. Most apps and browsers use this setting but strangely not Firefox or Firefox Focus.

This is sad because it means we therefore need to block those to encourage kids to use other browsers instead which isn't something we're very happy to do... It would be great to see this behaviour change so we could encourage kids to use Firefox on their recent Samsung device.

More details on this Samsung specific setting can be found here: https://seap.samsung.com/api-references/android-standard/reference/android/app/enterprise/devicesettings/DeviceSettingsPolicy.html#setGlobalProxy(android.app.enterprise.devicesettings.ProxyProperties)

With proxy settings no longer being programatically available for existing Wi-Fi settings from Android 6, the use of the alternative GlobalProxy setting on Samsung devices has been a helpful alternative to enable Web protection for children when needed. Most apps and browsers use this setting but strangely not Firefox or Firefox Focus. This is sad because it means we therefore need to block those to encourage kids to use other browsers instead which isn't something we're very happy to do... It would be great to see this behaviour change so we could encourage kids to use Firefox on their recent Samsung device. More details on this Samsung specific setting can be found here: https://seap.samsung.com/api-references/android-standard/reference/android/app/enterprise/devicesettings/DeviceSettingsPolicy.html#setGlobalProxy(android.app.enterprise.devicesettings.ProxyProperties)