When I start up galeon, I have about a dozen tabs that the program loads
pages for.  Three of these always fail to load.  These three are loaded
from my company's internal web site through a ssh proxy, while all the
others are loaded directly.  I know the proxy is working because I'm
running VNC over it at the same time.  If I stop the file loading, click in
the URL window, and hit return, the page loads immediately.  Its as if the
page loading attempts are initated before the proxy settings are read. 
Here's the contents of my automatic proxy file:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
    if (dnsDomainIs(host, ".cisco.com") ||
        localHostOrDomainIs(host, "127.0.0.1"))
            return "PROXY localhost";
    else
            return "DIRECT";
}