Bug#681782: iceweasel: navigator.onLine status when offline

[Kai Hendry]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.5esr-1
Severity: normal


I noticed when I pulled out my network or turned off wifi with a switch,
navigator.onLine does not turn false.

Application demonstrating the problem:
http://static.dabase.com/online/

I noticed a similar bug in upstream BTS:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426932#c28

IIUC there is some Network Manager integration, but I'm having
difficulty finding details of the integration. Tbh I prefer not to
integrate with crazy bloatware and I'm looking for an elegant solution
that cleanly applies to /etc/network/interfaces

Sidenote: Google Chrome 20.0.1132.57 also seems to have this problem btw.

Many thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash