1727869 - [Feature Suggestion] Option for a pop-up that tells the user that there is no internet connectivity

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1657159

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement, P3)

Description

[RagglenLove]

Attachment: mockup of the feature I'm suggesting.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

Expected results:

Usually, when their is no no internet connectivity or if the internet is intermittent, we the users aren't informed of this and have to discover this for ourselves.

I'm running Xubuntu 20.04, and while there is the network indicator applet in the xfce panel, it only notifies the user when the connection with the router breaks or is established, however, in the case that I'm describing, the router doesn't show any problems though when the connection drops, it still has all it's green lights on, so it doesn't show any problems in the network applet, but when I try to browse, it says "Server not found," so the solution as put forward by my ISP is to close/open the router, but I never get notifications of when the connection drops, I have to discover it for myself. So, a pop-up message telling the user that there is no internet connection would be useful.

A use-case scenario would be what I've experienced a few days ago, when I was online chatting with a friend and I was also playing a video game, I was unaware my connection dropped and my friend sent me a message. I never got any notifications that my friend sent me a message due to the connection being lost. I only found out my connection dropped 30 minutes into my game, so a pop-up would have been useful so I can reestablish the connection.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Networking: HTTP' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.