May 2, 2006

auto-offline

Starting with tomorrow's trunk build of Firefox, it'll be possible to enable auto-offline support in the browser. Right now, it only works on Windows (see bug 76111 for details), but support for other platforms is coming soon.

To enable this feature in a Windows build, you unfortunately need to disable auto-dialer support. In the future, this won't be necessary as we'll be able to support both auto-offline and the auto-dialer. For now, however, you will need to disable the "network.autodial-helper.enabled" using about:config.

The plan is to get this feature in for Bon Echo Alpha 2 for more widespread testing.

Posted by darin at May 2, 2006 10:10 PM
Comments

Is there an indication in the browser window that a page was loaded from the cache (e.g. to inform me that I'm looking at a stale Slashdot homepage)?

Posted by: Jesse Ruderman at May 2, 2006 11:38 PM

Nope, but I think there should be. You'd have to open up the File menu to see that you are working offline in order to guess that the content in the page is probably stale :-(

File a bug? It should probably block the FF 2 release.

Posted by: Darin Fisher at May 3, 2006 12:48 AM

This is great! Now that I have a laptop which isn’t always online, this is really a feature that I was looking for :).

Thunderbird also needs this in its IMAP support.


~Grauw

Posted by: Laurens Holst at May 3, 2006 1:45 AM

Filed bug 336496 for "Indication of offline status (viewing cached/stale page)".

Posted by: Jesse Ruderman at May 3, 2006 12:31 PM

Jesse, yes, good one :).

Posted by: Laurens Holst at May 4, 2006 2:54 PM