1079113 - when net connection is lost, should auto work offline, with notification that it is offline right now and page is cached

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 464577

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[noitidart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141002185629

Steps to reproduce:

i went on a trip last weekend. fri morning. while waiting for a flight made friends with guy next to me. he was using firefox. so we looked something up. then closed that tab.

then went inside plane. and we opened his laptop back up cuz we wanted to look up that page. we typed that url in and it loaded the "could not load page, check your net connection" page. he's like darn we can't look at it. i was like no, go to tri stripe button, go to developer, then go to work offline, then refresh. he did that and we could now see what we wanted, the page was loaded from cache.


he was like dang thats super cool and super useful!

so we should auto load cached page and just use like baloon notification to say its gone offline. or put a button on the "check net connection" for "load from cache".

tons of users are missing out on a basic feature that they dont know about