290543 - Want prefs setting to bypass "Document cannot be displayed while offline" dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Would like a preferences setting that disables the message dialog box, "This
document cannot be displayed while offline", and instead, silently goes online
whenever the need arises.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run Firefox in offline mode (often happens as a result of being offline in
previous run).  Try to access a web page I haven't viewed recently enough to
have it in the cache.



This is not, quite, a duplicate of bug 189696, but they are alternative ways to
solve the same problem.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Does it help if you go in about:config and set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled =
true ?

Comment 2

[John David Galt]

(Replying to comment #1)
No.  The dialog still appears.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[John David Galt]

I still believe this enhancement is needed.  Would someone with the power to
mark a bug as "confirmed" please do so.

Comment 5

[vijay kumar]

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