Location of the offline home page in Firefox

[Matthew East]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Eleanor Chen <chenyueg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an idea, which has not been fully developed. So, if I am wrong,
> please tell me.
>
> I think the offline homepage should be somehow changed.

My idea is to scrap the offline hompage entirely. I feel that if a
user opens the browser and is offline, that information should
immediately be made clear to him through an error message. The purpose
of opening a browser is to access the internet (not to find out about
Ubuntu) and if the user doesn't have a working internet account, I
don't think it's fair to give a screen which looks a bit like a
webpage.

I've raised this with the firefox maintainer and there is a spec in
place dealing with similar issues: we'll see how it goes.

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Matthew East
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