Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-27 Thread Bilal Akhtar
I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline mode at all. It is very much helpful for DSL users as well. Sometimes, I want to avoid my browser add-ons from unnecessarily accessing web resources while something large is being downloaded or I am voice-chatting.

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-27 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:28, Bilal Akhtar bilalakh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline mode at all. It is very much helpful for DSL users as well. Sometimes, I want to avoid my browser add-ons from unnecessarily accessing web

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-18 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 14:54, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: (I had a similar experience with a neighbor running Windows last year. Their ISP, trying to troubleshoot the problem, had resorted to sending them a whole new router -- but it turned out the neighbor had just

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
Stuart Langridge stuart.langri...@canonical.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:04 -0700, David Hamm wrote: I've notice this problem on 3 separate lucid computers. One of them not mine. Simple fix but not sure why the network got disabled. Even though this is a design email, just though i'd

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-17 Thread David Hamm
Just reminding you guys, but laptops come with a network off switch typically on the side or front of it. So I don't think disabling is a problem. Besides most planes have shielded cables so the whole interference thing is bs. Unless your on some rickety mob boss craft on your way to Mayapore. In

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
David Hamm davidth...@gmail.com wrote: Just reminding you guys, but laptops come with a network off switch typically on the side or front of it. So I don't think disabling is a problem. Besides most planes have shielded cables so the whole interference thing is bs. Unless your on some rickety

[Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-16 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Designers, I have just got back from an Ubuntu user's office where their Ubuntu computer 'didn't work at all'. It turns out that the networking checkbox was unchecked and the computer was simply offline. Before I fixed it though I wanted to see how the user assessed the problem and tried

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-16 Thread David Hamm
I've notice this problem on 3 separate lucid computers. One of them not mine. Simple fix but not sure why the network got disabled. Even though this is a design email, just though i'd throw it out there. I don't think there should even be the option to disable the network from the tray. Rather it

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-16 Thread Dylan McCall
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 17:13 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: Hello Designers, I have just got back from an Ubuntu user's office where their Ubuntu computer 'didn't work at all'. It turns out that the networking checkbox was unchecked and the computer was simply offline. Before I fixed it though

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-16 Thread Remco
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:04, David Hamm davidth...@gmail.com wrote: I've notice this problem on 3 separate lucid computers. One of them not mine. Simple fix but not sure why the network got disabled. Even though this is a design email, just though i'd throw it out there. I don't think there