On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:25:03PM -0800, Jason Duell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Tantek Çelik <tan...@cs.stanford.edu> > wrote: > > > > > Honestly this is starting to sound more and more like a need for a > > "Minimal Network" variant of the "Work Offline" option we have in > > Firefox (which AFAIK no other current browser has), since no amount of > > OS-level guess-work is going to give you a reliable answer (as this > > thread has documented). > > > > So a switch that toggles the "network is expensive" bit, plus turns off > browser updates, phishing list fetches, etc? I can see how this would be > nice for power users on a tethered cell phone network. One issue would be > to make sure users don't forget to turn it off (and never update their > browser again, etc). Maybe it could time out.
One thing asking the OS can do, other than give information of dubious accuracy for the purpose of the API discussed here, is allow to tell if things changed. So the browser could turn this off automatically (or ask to) when the network connection changes. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
