189696 - Offline Error page and dialog ("This document cannot be displayed while offline") should have "go online" button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 435325

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[parish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030118 Netscape6/6.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030118 Netscape6/6.5

If you try to load a webpage offline, by any means, a pop-up states that the
page can't be displayed offline. However, in Mail/News when you click Get Msgs,
the pop-up asks if you want to go online and has a button to do so.

This is inconsistent behaviour between components.

The Browser should offer a "Go Online" button like Mail/News.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188537 ***

Comment 2

[parish]

This is *not* a dupe of 188537. This is an RFE and refers to the online/offline
status, as in File->Work Offline,  of the browser. bug 188537 is about
auto-dialling not working and, AFAICT, appears to be a problem specific to the
reporter that would probably be resolved by creating a new profile.


Please re-open this bug.

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

ok

Comment 4

[Chris Lyon]

->Networking

Comment 5

[benc]

-> NEW.

I thought there was at least one duplciate of this bug, but I could not find it
(possibly the summary was incorrect and it is lost in networking).

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Re comment 5:

I believe "Mark Dup. of bug 113591" is the way to go !?
(Adding 'Depends On' for now.)

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

ok, duping :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113591 ***

Comment 8

[benc]

REOPEN:
That bug added an error w/ some text instructions, but some users have asked for
an actual "go online" button.

Comment 9

[John David Galt]

FYI, I've proposed an alternative enhancement that addresses the same problem at
bug 290543.

Comment 10

[Steffen Wilberg]

*** Bug 256647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Benjamin, since your fix on bug 292624 we still have no access to chrome. Is
there a possibility to get the current online state or can't we offer a "Go
online" button?

Comment 12

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm having trouble thinking of a "safe" way to do that, without an extra dialog.
We could make window.navigator.onLine a writable property (and we probably do
want to do that in the 1.9 timeframe anyway in terms of semi-offline web apps),
but I would expect that setting that should prompt the user.

Comment 13

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #12)
> I'm having trouble thinking of a "safe" way to do that, without an extra
> dialog.
> We could make window.navigator.onLine a writable property (and we probably do
> want to do that in the 1.9 timeframe anyway in terms of semi-offline web apps),
> but I would expect that setting that should prompt the user.

Benjamin, what has been changed until now. Is the way possible now you have proposed 3 years ago?

Comment 14

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Bug 435325 is more information on this.