Comment 58 for bug 191889
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| ManuPeng (mvieuxmaire) wrote Re: Firefox's new "Offline Mode" feature cannot properly detect when there is a valid network available for use in many circumstances | #58 |
Actually, I'm gonna have to agree with Kristian Erik after all.
You see, at first, since Pidgin, Evolution and Firefox 3 were concerned by that offline problem, leading all three applications to start offline on my (and others) PC, I thought a central piece of code had to be responsible, the network manager. But now, I realize that other applications take a more easy-going approach, like the weather applet, it never bothers me with online or offline, it just tries to access the URL where it gets its data from, and done, should no connection exists, it displays "- -".
Google Earth? Same thing, it doesn't ask the network manager for its piece of mind, it attempts to connect to the google earth stream-server and done!
So I tend to agree with Kristian Erik, an application shouldn't rely on the network manager only, especially if it fails at detecting some connection types. It's not much, but it gets VERY annoying to have to click 2-3 extra times every time you start some applications, or even 8 times or so with Pidgin, because I have to disable my yahoo, AIM and MSN account, before re-enabling them in order for Pidgin to override the offline mode and connect to the respective servers. The clicking has an annoying cumulative effect.