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.

Jason
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