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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #205169
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 205169

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 205169] Re: Offline mode not defeatable in FF3

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:34:23PM -0000, Eric Lee Elliott wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 191889 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889
>
> No, not duplicate of bug. Users should not have to ever be bothered with off line mode. Period.
> I do not ever use FF off line. Why should FF ever switch off line in my computer? No other browser I use has a line switch. No other browser I use has ever line switched for any reason, then required me to find switch and set back on line. Regardless of cause, regardless of source of switch problem, regardless of intentions of FF designers, no user should be required to switch FF on line. Especially if he never selects off line mode.
> I am not only XFF3 user due to line mode switch. If FF2 starts switching off line like FF3. I will quit FF2 also.
> Second issue is FF having a line mode switch; not just issue of intrusive line switch but existence of lin mode switch. Why exist?
> Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
>

be assured that there is a patch on its way into upstream code-base
that will allow you to disable network manager in about:config

 - Alexander