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Work Offline

If you have any problems or bugs, please see "Troubleshooting" section.

Introduction

Work Offline is a Mozilla Firefox extension which adds an icon
to indicate and switch online/offline mode on the status bar.

[Compatibility]
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 - 1.0.8, 1.5 - 1.5.0.12, 2.0 - 2.0.0.20, 3.0 - 3.0.16, 3.5 - 3.5.6
This extension only support official release builds.
This doesn't support nightly builds/alpha/beta/release candidates or
unofficial/optimized/third party builds.
*** This extension doesn't work properly on Firefox 1.0.x of Mac OS X. ***
[Locale]
en-US, ja(ja-JP), ja-JP-mac(ja-JPM), tr(tr-TR), fr(fr-FR), it(it-IT),
cs(cs-CZ), de(de-DE), hu(hu-HU), sk(sk-SK), ru(ru-RU), pl(pl-PL), zh(zh-TW)

Download

Download from Mozilla Add-ons.

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How to use

This extension displays an icon below on the status bar.
It indicates online/offline status.

Online
Offline

To switch online/offline mode, click this icon
or select "File" - "Work Offline" from the menu bar.

Drag
Drop

You can change the icon order by drag & drop.

Icon 1 Icon 2 Icon 3
Titlebar

And this extension can also change the icon
and display the offline message on the titlebar like Internet Explorer.

From version 1.5, this extension can force offline mode when Firefox starts up,
and reload all tabs when Firefox goes to online mode.

Setting dialog

You can change settings on the setting dialog.

Troubleshooting

It doesn't work correctly (1)

Other extensions may cause the problem with this extension.
Try deleting other extensions except this extension.
If you know what extension the problem, please tell me the extension.

It doesn't work correctly (2)

If you have some problem in your profile, the extension may not work properly.
Try creating a new profile and installing this extension.
To create a new profile, see Firefox Support page.

It doesn't work correctly (3)

Nightly builds/alpha/beta/release candidates or
unofficial/optimized/third party builds may cause the problem.
Please use on official release builds.

I want to add a online/offline icon to the toolbar

Please install one of these extensions.
Toolbar Buttons / FireFoxMenuButtons

I want to use a keyboard shortcut

Press Alt+F and then W to switch online/offline mode.
If you use keyconfig, use this code:
BrowserOffline.toggleOfflineStatus();

History

1.5 (Released on 2009/6/27)
  • [Firefox 3.5] Modified em:maxVersion to 3.5.* in install.rdf.
  • Added a new feature: reload all tabs when Firefox goes to online mode.
  • Added a new feature: force offline mode when firefox starts up.
  • Renewed statusbar icons of "Thunderbird 2.0 or later".
  • Supported nl(nl-NL) locale (Special thanks to Onno Ekker!).
  • Fixed a JavaScript error message caused by missing a default value
    extensions.offline.insertAfter when Firefox starts up (Special thanks to Noah Young!).
  • Fixed missing "var" in onDrop (Special thanks to Noah Young!).
  • Cleand up codes.
1.4 (Released on 2008/6/18)
  • [Firefox 3] Modified em:maxVersion to 3.0.* in install.rdf.
  • Fixed PrefListener was not deleted when a window was closed
    (Special thanks to Lewis Lv!).
  • Supported zh-TW locale (Special thanks to n kc!).
  • Fixed hu locale.
1.3 (Released on 2006/10/24)
  • [Firefox 2.0] Modified em:maxVersion to 2.0.0.* in install.rdf.
  • Localizable description of the extension manager.
  • Be able to show the offline message on the titlebar like Internet Explorer.
    (Reference: Build ID in titlebar)
  • Be able to select icon to show on the status bar.
    (Reference: XUL Apps > Tips - outsider reflex,
    Dev : Using preferences - MozillaZine Knowledge Base)
  • Added icons of Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 or later.
  • Brought the icon of the Add-ons manager (Extension manager) back.
  • Separated JavaScript codes from XUL files.
  • Supported pl(pl-PL) locale (Special thanks to Teo!).
  • Modified other locale data (Special thanks to all translators!).
1.2 (Released on 2006/5/17)
  • Fixed Unicode escape problem (Special thanks to Balogh Tibor!).
1.1 (Released on 2006/5/5)
  • Supported sk(sk-SK) locale (Special thanks to Wladow!).
  • Supported ru(ru-RU) locale (Special thanks to Modex!).
  • Escaped locale data to Unicode.
  • Now you can drag & drop the status bar icon to the most right side.
    (Reference: autoHideStatusbar)
  • Changed status bar icons to Thunderbird online/offline icons (Special thanks to Balogh Tibor!).
  • Changed default status bar icon position to the most left side (Special thanks to Balogh Tibor!).
  • Modified the Hungarian translation, it's such a Thunderbird online/offline label
    (Special thanks to Balogh Tibor!).
1.0 (Released on 2005/11/3)
  • [Firefox 1.5] Modified em:maxVersion to 1.5.0.* in install.rdf.
0.9 (Released on 2005/10/10)
0.8 (Released on 2005/9/24)
  • Supported hu(hu-HU) locale (Special thanks to KAMI!).
0.7 (Released on 2005/9/10)
0.6 (Released on 2005/6/4)
0.5.4 (Released on 2005/4/19)
  • Supported cs-CZ, de-DE locales (Special thanks to Georgo10, Joerg Klemenz!).
0.5.3 (Released on 2005/2/27)
  • Supported it-IT locale (Special thanks to andr3a (extenzilla.it)!).
0.5.2 (Released on 2005/2/26)
  • Supported fr-FR locale (Special thanks to Mori!).
0.5.1 (Released on 2004/12/28)
  • Supported ja-JPM locale.
0.5 (Released on 2004/11/25)
  • Took over from Motohiko.
  • Replaced icons.
  • Changed the license to GPL.

License

This software is distributed under the terms of
the GPL (GNU General Public License) Version 2.

ToDo

Help Wanted

I need your help! and I also need bug report.
Please contact me by e-mail (my e-mail address is listed below).

Presented by INOUE Naoto.
E-mail: leafy [at] multi [dot] nadenade [dot] com