531024 - Offline mode should allow loading of local URLs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87717

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Pascal Sartoretti]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3

Current behavior :
When Firefox has no network connection, it automatically goes into "Offline" mod and refuses to load pages. This is problematic in the following use cases:
- when using e.g. Google Desktop, which displays its results in a web page loaded via 127.0.0.1.
- for web developers working offline and testing applications (minor problem, see workaround).

Many users have raised the problem (see e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440527).

Current workaround :
The user must manually exit the offline mode to load such pages; this is misleading, because the user will then get errors when loading remote pages.

Proposed solution :
When in offline mode, Firefox should accept to load local pages (localhost or 127.0.0.1)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Appears to be a duplicate of Bug 87717

Comment 2

[Pascal Sartoretti]

Yes, a dupe.