____/ Ignoramus15568 on Wednesday 16 April 2008 04:53 : \____
> On 2008-04-16, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ____/ Ignoramus15568 on Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:13 : \____
>>
>>> On 2008-04-15, Colin Wilson
>>> <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Colin, what do you think about
>>>>> [Bug 191889] Re: Firefox's new "Offline Mode" feature cannot properly
>>>>> it causes quite a consternation amongst Hardy beta users, myself
>>>>> included. Any idea if you guys have any plans to address it?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not a developer myself, but it sounds like it's an issue with
>>>> Firefox 3 in particular, as it sounds like Firefox 2 worked as it
>>>> should.
>>>>
>>>> It might be that while it's still in beta, they're working on the
>>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Colin, to give you a brief synopsis, the issue is that Firefox, Pidgin
>>> etc rely on dbus and NetworkManager to check if they are
>>> online. NetworkManager does not work with a lot of dialup and cell
>>> phone and wireless broadband modems and if we dial on our own from
>>> command line. Thus it thinks that the computer is offline (despite having
>>> an obvious default route etc).
>>>
>>> That causes all these programs to start in offline mode, which is realy
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>> I had to downgrade to firefox-2 due to this.
>>
>> Firefox 3.0 is still a couple of months away. Use in a production-type
>> environment at own risk... or file a bug report.
>>
>
> I think that Firefox 3 is not at fault here, what is at fault is the
> method of determining offline status/
In Thunderbird and Firefox, which I use regularly enough to know, I believe
on/offline is determined by the state of the application as instructed by the
user... not the O/S layer informing the application about connection status.
This may have changed in future versions, but I doubt it.
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