Re: Automatic offline mode

On 1/7/2010 1:53 AM, Neil wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>
>> Current versions of Firefox and Thunderbird poll the operating
>> system's network connectivity status at start-up and continuously
>> while running, and automatically switch to offline mode whenever
>> connectivity is not present, or is (even temporarily) lost. There is
>> no user-configurable option to disable this behaviour.
>
> For Thunderbird, you can set offline.autoDetect to false in config
> editor. (This is the default for SeaMonkey.)

Thanks for that. Searched the Mozilla knowledgebase, and found it under 
'Mail and News Settings'. Wondering if it shuts off autodetect in the 
browser component of SeaMonkey, and if adding it to the Firefox config 
would have any effect at all...