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Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock



On 06/10/2024 03:04, Mike Castle wrote:
For me, the biggest signal is GMail and similar apps will go into a
"You are not online" state.

Web applications may intentionally use various tricks to detect idle even though the following API is unavailable in Firefox
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Idle_Detection_API>

Paused downloads is a more apparent symptom, however I have not tried to reproduce it (I prefer wget that sets file modification time accordingly to Last-Modified header).

Firefox generates events in response to connection changes in NetworkManager:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/onLine>



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