226046 - Include "Don't ask me again" button on "online/offline" startup dialog

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew Church]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029

(from bug 225691 comments 2, 8, and 10)
The "work online"/"work offline" dialog displayed at Mozilla startup when
offline.startup_state is 1 should have either a "don't ask me again" button or a
message stating that the dialog can be turned off via Edit -> Preferences ->
Mail & Newsgroups -> Offline.  In some cases (such as a profile imported from
Netscape 4.x) it is possible for offline.startup_state to be set to 1 without
user interaction, and there is currently no obvious way to disable the dialog.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Aaron Sloman]

I have just found this new horrible feature in mozilla 1.6b: it asks
me EVERY time whether to start online or offline despite the fact that
I have a permanent cable modem.

Please add a 'don't ask me again' button AND, if appropriate, include
something in preferences for people to turn it on or off.

It definitely should not be a permanent feature of mozilla startup.

Thanks
Aaron
===
Aaron Sloman
www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs

Comment 2

[Aaron Sloman]

For anyone else who looks here. The information in bug 225691 explains
how to fix this. You have to go to edit -> preferences -> mail/news
 -> offline

which is rather silly because the problem arises if you just start mozilla,
without doing anything about mail/news.

At least users can fix it, but I don't see why the default was changed
to make this dialog always happen at startup, and if it is the default
the startup panel should make it easy for users to change the default.

Comment 3

[benc]

-> networking, plat=all,all, qa to me.

The default didn't change, you had set that value before, long ago in Communicator. 

The dialog only came up if you had a single profile (which would bypass profile
manager). In later versions of Mozilla, we have added this feature, but often it
comes up when it shouldn't (it should not appear if you used Profile Manager to
startup).

If you create a new profile, you will see this doesn't happen.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 202529?

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

-> Profile Manager

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420