987802 - Default network.manage-offline-status to true on linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 464577

(Core :: Networking: WebSockets, defect)

Description

[Ralf Jung]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start downloading some large file.
2. Disconnect from the wireless network
3. Re-establish the connection


Actual results:

Firefox should automatically pause and resume the download.


Expected results:

The download comes to a halt, and has to be manually paused and resume to continue.


Further information:
This is essentially a clone of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391732 for Firefox. Until some minutes ago, I was not even aware that Firefox is able to communicate with NetworkManager to figure out whether I am online or not - and, even better, it can even automatically pause and resume downloads. This is great! My experience with an unstable wireless connection, and when suspending/resuming the system, has just been drastically enhanced. Now I just wonder why this is not enabled per default.
(I also wonder why it has a totally different name than the same pref in Thunderbird...^^)

Comment 1

[Steve Workman [:sworkman] (INACTIVE)]

Manuela, you might be interested in following bug 939318 in which work is happening to detect changes in network topology and stop/reset connections as necessary.