259541 - Should terminate dialup connection on exit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251532

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Johannes Rohr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

It would be very useful if firefox would optinally use WININET.DLL to terminate
a dialup connection on exit. IE and OE have this functionality, as well as
Pegasus Mail.

In my office, idle dialup connections add substantially to the phone bill.
Windows does not accept a hangup timeout of less than 3 minutes. 



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox
2. Browse the Web
3. Exit firefox

Actual Results:  
Connection stays idle for a number of minutes, until timeout is reached. In
fact, sometimes it takes even much longer than that.

Expected Results:  
If Firefox (and Thunderbird, too, of course) would terminate the connection
immediately upon exit/going offline would save us real money.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251532 ***

Comment 2

[Johannes Rohr]

Hi, please READ a report carefully and make sure you have understood its content
before marking it as duplicate!

I'm NOT complaining about the idle timeout not being observed, which of course
is a problem, but a different one.

Instead I'm requesting extra functionality to be added to firefox: to use the
DUN functions provided by WININET.DLL to (optionally) hangup *immediately*  on
going offline/exiting the program, just as IE does (instead of waiting for a
timeout to complete, which costs us real money).

This is a different matter, you see?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

ah, my mistake, but a different one than you assumed.  I didn't read the
original enough to realize that we'd never actually morphed the bug after our
separate discussion via maillist and IRC.

Duping again, but then I'll actually morph/confirm the other bug, which should
be basically be a "hook into the OS dialup API" bug.

Splitting individual applications of that API into separate bugs would probably
mean crappy/missing UI/functionality.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251532 ***