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copied!<p>I think I've got this figured out: if there's an error in one's cache-manifest (say, a referenced file does not exist), then Firefox completely will stop processing anything applicationCache related. Meaning, it won't update anything in your cache, including your cached cache-manifest.</p> <p>To uncover that this was the issue, I <a href="http://google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc#e_ObwTAVPyo/dom/tests/mochitest/ajax/offline/offlineTests.js&q=applicationCache%20lang:javascript" rel="noreferrer">borrowed some code from Mozilla</a> and dropped this into a new (non-cached) HTML file in my application. The final message logged stated that there might be a problem in my cache-manifest, and sure enough there was (a missing file).</p> <pre><code> // Convenience array of status values var cacheStatusValues = []; cacheStatusValues[0] = 'uncached'; cacheStatusValues[1] = 'idle'; cacheStatusValues[2] = 'checking'; cacheStatusValues[3] = 'downloading'; cacheStatusValues[4] = 'updateready'; cacheStatusValues[5] = 'obsolete'; // Listeners for all possible events var cache = window.applicationCache; cache.addEventListener('cached', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('checking', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('downloading', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('error', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('noupdate', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('obsolete', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('progress', logEvent, false); cache.addEventListener('updateready', logEvent, false); // Log every event to the console function logEvent(e) { var online, status, type, message; online = (isOnline()) ? 'yes' : 'no'; status = cacheStatusValues[cache.status]; type = e.type; message = 'online: ' + online; message+= ', event: ' + type; message+= ', status: ' + status; if (type == 'error' && navigator.onLine) { message+= ' There was an unknown error, check your Cache Manifest.'; } log('<br/>'+message); } function log(s) { alert(s); } function isOnline() { return navigator.onLine; } if (!$('html').attr('manifest')) { log('No Cache Manifest listed on the tag.') } // Swap in newly download files when update is ready cache.addEventListener('updateready', function(e){ // Don't perform "swap" if this is the first cache if (cacheStatusValues[cache.status] != 'idle') { cache.swapCache(); log('Swapped/updated the Cache Manifest.'); } } , false); // These two functions check for updates to the manifest file function checkForUpdates(){ cache.update(); } function autoCheckForUpdates(){ setInterval(function(){cache.update()}, 10000); } return { isOnline: isOnline, checkForUpdates: checkForUpdates, autoCheckForUpdates: autoCheckForUpdates } </code></pre> <p>This was certainly helpful, but I should definitely request a feature from Mozilla that prints out malformed cache-manifests at least to the Error Console. It shouldn't require custom code to attach to these events to diagnose an issue as trivial as a renamed file.</p>

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