270327 - Almost all Webpages are not displayed in Work Offline mode.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269962

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[macster_smart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1 Final

Make possible to display webpages when in Offline mode even if I click an link 
typed a new address or open an link from another program to display the webpage 
that I have just browsed it Today or Yestarday.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open one webpage 
2. Copy the link of that webpage in memory
3. Close that webpage
4. Click on the File>Work Offline 
5. Open another Firefox windows an paste from memory the address to the address 
bar of the new opened Firefox window then click Go
6. The webpage is not bein displayed.
Actual Results:  
The webpages are not opening in Offline mode

Expected Results:  
To be able to display last visited webpages links in offline mode.

It makes imposible to browse last visited webpages in offline mode and forces 
you to conect to the internet to can read the webpages that already have been 
browsed but not being displayed on Firefox.

Comment 1

[walf]

i have not been able to view pages in work offline mode once.
i have had to use about:cache?device=disk every time.
i made my cache 204800 KB and yet when my dial-up drops out i check the cache
and sometimes it might only have a couple of favicon.ico's and one page, which
of course due to Murphy's Law is never the one i want to see whilst offline.

i'd set this bug to CONFIRMED but i don't have the privelige

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[David Laidlaw]

I have "voted" for two other bugs that appear to describe the same problem:
274328 and 269962.  As far as I'm concerned, all three can be combined into one.
 Thanks!

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Firefox "offline' mode (which came from Netscape) does not work like the one in
Internet Explorer - you can't surf offline. It's only used to prevent the
browser from going online, while working on local files. There are no plans to
change it, but you're welcome to implement an extension for it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269962 ***

Comment 5

[Shamit]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Firefox "offline' mode (which came from Netscape) does not work like the one in
> Internet Explorer - you can't surf offline. It's only used to prevent the
> browser from going online, while working on local files. There are no plans to
> change it, but you're welcome to implement an extension for it.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269962 ***


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It is an open invitation to spammer, isnt it ?
Probably not related to this bug, however I thought I'd mention this ...