[Bug 367531] [NEW] firefox should be smarter about offline access

[Kevin Hunter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

The term 'offline' is just a euphemism for "net-not-accessible."  As
such, even when the net is not accessible, certain items *are*
accessible.  For instance, http://127.0.0.1 is *always* accessible.

Further, if the user has special entries in their host file, or has a
local copy of DNS for certain things, then these *could* be resolved.  I
propose that Firefox should be smarter about offline access.  It could
try for "one hop" to find resolve names.

For instance, if I have this in my hosts file

127.0.0.1  localhost
127.0.0.1  somelocalproject
127.0.0.1  anotherlocalproject

Then all three of

http://localhost/
http://somelocalproject/
http://anotherlocalproject/

should be accessible.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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firefox should be smarter about offline access
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