Comment 155 for bug 191889

(In reply to comment #23)
> If someone volunteered to write a patch to have a hidden pref do this, would it
> be considered for inclusion?

It would definitely be considered. I don't know that code, so it's hard for me to intuit if that's something that's easily preffable or not in ways that aren't potentially harmful to the rest of the product.

While I (and mconnor, trust me) do understand the pain that this causes a subset of the Linux using audience, I want to stress that Firefox is doing what the operating system tells us: in this case, the operating system reports that there is no network connection, and we obey. It is indeed unfortunate that the operating system is misinforming us, and I'd be happy to do what I can as interim fixes as long as it's not in ways that remove a useful feature (automatic online/offline detection) for the vast majority of our users.

This will not block the final ship of Firefox 3.