490269 - Handle online/offline events in content loading

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Currently when Firefox 3 goes offline all documents that are being loaded are becoming broken and the new documents that will be requested after switching to offline will present "offline" error page.

When we switch to online, nothing happens.

What should happen (and what happens in Safari and Chrome) is that:
1) we reload "offline" pages
2) we continue loading content in tabs that are broken.

I wrote a small extension(a) that deals with 1), but as far as I know 2) is currently impossible because we have no way to tell if the document was loaded properly or not (i.e. if images were downloaded or not or if externals style sheets were).

The best would be to be able to continue loading by just loading the pieces that did not make it before the computer went offline, but easier solution would be just to reload the whole page.

a) http://hg.mozilla.org/users/zbraniecki_mozilla.com/online-reload/