Hi Valentin, I'm CC-ing dev-tech-network From what I can recall, these issues are known, and currently being worked on. Bug 939318 might be of interest to you.
On 21 February 2014 00:02, Valentin Tsatskin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m an intern on the Firefox UX team. I’ve been working on ways we could > improve the user experience for people who are having network related > issues. > > I noticed that internet connectivity issues are not reported to the user > and instead are given network related issues. For example, you do not have > an active WiFi connection, try to access a site, and get a DNS error. This > leads to us mis-diagnosing the problem to the user. > > I’ve done research into the problem, and turns out we do have the > capabilities to do connectivity detection, however the feature is disabled > due to the implementation not behaving how we want. In addition, there were > cases where users would be stuck in “work offline” mode. > > You’ll find a further analysis of the problem here: > https://people.mozilla.org/~vtsatskin/notes/Projects/Internet%20Connectivity/internet.connectivty > > I welcome any and all feedback to the document. I’m particularily looking > for people experienced in the networking portions of our code base to see > if there are any holes in the assumptions I’ve made. > > -- > Valentin Tsatskin > User Experience Connoisseur in Training @ *Mozilla* > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
