(In reply to comment #24)
> > To me that sounds like Linux networking hasn't caught up with new ways of
> establishing connectivity.
>
> Do any other platforms do anything like that?
No, they haven't caught up either. But users on other platforms don't tend to log out when putting their machines to sleep and changing network locations (not sure how common this is on Linux either).
> I understand - it will benefit some users. But imagine for a second if we got
> rid of both XSMP and the Firefox "restore session" dialog.
(In reply to comment #24)
> > To me that sounds like Linux networking hasn't caught up with new ways of
> establishing connectivity.
>
> Do any other platforms do anything like that?
No, they haven't caught up either. But users on other platforms don't tend to log out when putting their machines to sleep and changing network locations (not sure how common this is on Linux either).
> I understand - it will benefit some users. But imagine for a second if we got
> rid of both XSMP and the Firefox "restore session" dialog.
Could you file this as a new bug?