Comment 25 for bug 207456

I experienced this when travelling by train. After booting my Ubuntu Hardy Heron system, it detects no wired (default) or wireless networks and therefore Firefox 3 is set to normal mode. When the train stops at a station that has a wireless network, even though I don't (try to)access it, the system is not really influenced by this. However when the wireless network goes out of reach, Firefox detects the network has gone when accessing localhost and switches to 'working offline'.

In short, like many other argue, Firefox accessing localhost should not be effected by this. I would like to propose, like others, that accessing localhost is considered like accessing an URL on the local file system.

If one really needs the behaviour that localhost is considered an external URL, it should be possible to enable this functionality somewhere in the preference menu's.