On 2008-04-16, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> In Thunderbird and Firefox, which I use regularly enough to know, I
>> believe on/offline is determined by the state of the application as
>> instructed by the user... not the O/S layer informing the application
>> about connection status. This may have changed in future versions,
>> but I doubt it.
>
> This specific flag is "offline.startup_state" (in about:config, or
> manually edit prefs.js). Mine's set to "2", which I guess means always
> start up on-line.
>
> There's also a dynamic variable "network.online" which is updated by the
> Necko transport layer, which I assume checks for an active network to
> determine its status. It's behaviour may have changed in FF3.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/netprefs.html
>
Thanks. I will try it on the train tonight.
i
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