The corporate proxy at my work doesn't support web sockets and as I understand, as informed by Wikipedia, this is pretty common.
Whenever a Stack Exchange page loads, in Firefox, I have to click through six proxy authentication messages before I can do anything.
It doesn't look like Stack Exchange uses websockets on other browsers.
While others in a similar situation and I can just use another browser, it would be useful if Stack Exchange can disable websockets for a session if they're failing.
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/preferences/[user id]
) in addition to Allow email notifications when I subscribe to questions or tags we can have there something like Allow live updates through web sockets