987288 - Network Events not being fired when turning Laptop wifi off

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 756364

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[James]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.60 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox on my Ubuntu 12 laptop
2. Go to this demo: https://bug336359.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=220609
3. See that it says 'Online'
4. Select File -> Work Offline
5. See it change to 'Offline'
6. De-select File -> Work Offline
7. See it change to 'Online'
8. Turn off laptop WiFi
9. See it stay 'Online'


Actual results:

When the laptop wifi was disconnected, Firefox didn't fire event for connectivity change.


Expected results:

When the laptop wifi was disconnected, Firefox should have fired event for connectivity change, even after waiting 30+ seconds.

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please try the following :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode