440552 - Auto-detect online status based on network interface status

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[David Ascher (:davida)]

If my net connection drops, thunderbird should automatically and gracefully go into offline mode (and not ask to download, as that would be pointless).

We need nsINetworkLinkService for OS X before we can do this, though.

Comment 1

[David Ascher (:davida)]

Attachment: trivial pref change for mac

Update:

 - OS X now can support this, and I'll submit a patch to enable the Windows behavior on Mac.

 - Linux can't support this until NetworkManager can be trusted, which is hard according to 424626

 - If the Linux user can trust NetworkManager,  the pref "toolkit.networkmanager.disable" should be set to false, as well as the offline.autoDetect pref set to true.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 341992 [details] [diff] [review]
trivial pref change for mac

or I think we we could now just do #ifdef XP_UNIX
pref("offline.atoDetect", false);
#else
#endif

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 341992 [details] [diff] [review]
trivial pref change for mac

I'll attach a tweaked patch

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: switch the sense of the #ifdef around...

Comment 5

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I'm going to create a separate bug for creating an exception behavior for Linux users.  This patch seems fine as is, however I think we can turn on Linux auto-detect with an added speed bump.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

landed

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Bryan, if you could reference the linux bug here, that might help.

Comment 8

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

bug 460363 has the exception for linux users