On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> wrote: > On 15/12/16 14:20, Daniel Stenberg wrote: >> Looking at that collection of existing user, basically all of them want >> the user to anser this question: >> >> "Use expensive traffic (y/n)" > > And this should be an OS-level switch which the browser and other apps > both respect and reflect. Doesn't Android already have a "background > data" switch?
Until an OS-level switch happens, I think a browser level switch could work well. > If I'm on the train wifi, I want to turn off all unnecessary traffic, > both to show love to other users, and because it'll make what I'm > actually focussed on doing faster. Now is not the time to run a backup. > I'd love such a switch on my laptop which my apps and web pages respected. Gerv points out another good use-case. Train/plane and other shared limited wifi. 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). Tantek _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
