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Status: Verified
Owner:
steve...@chromium.org
Closed: Oct 2017
Cc:
tbuck...@chromium.org
steve...@chromium.org
dpa...@chromium.org
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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'Forgetting' a connected wifi network does not disconnect the network

Project Member Reported by jhawkins@chromium.org, Jun 15 2017 
Chrome Version: 61.0.3129.0
OS: CrOS

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Click system tray
(2) Click on connected wifi network list item
(3) Click on connected wifi network list item in the wifi list
(4) Click 'FORGET' button

What is the expected result?

Wifi network is disconnected (and forgotten).

What happens instead?

Wifi network remains connected (the dialog closes but nothing else appears to happen).

Comment 1 by steve...@chromium.org, Jun 15 2017

Owner: tbuck...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
The current behavior is actually expected behavior by design. It may seem a bit unintuitive, but there is a use case for it:

When a user connects to a network, that connection is remembered automatically.

If a user wants to remain connected to a network, but not store the credentials on their device, this allows them to forget the network but remain connected.

It's an edge case either way, and I don't really have a strong opinion here.

FWIW, Android disconnects when forgetting a network, so if we want to be consistent we could change the behavior.

->tbuckley@ to make the call.

Comment 2 by tbuck...@chromium.org, Jun 15 2017

Cc: tbuck...@chromium.org
Owner: steve...@chromium.org
Yeah, wanting to stay on a network without having credentials seems like an edge case to me. Disconnecting when you forget a network makes more sense.

Comment 3 by steve...@chromium.org, Oct 31 2017

Status: Fixed (was: Assigned)
This was fixed somewhere along the way.

Comment 4 by mkarkada@chromium.org, Nov 10 2017

Status: Verified (was: Fixed)
Clicking on 'FORGET' button causes the network to be Wifi disconnected and forgotten. Verified on M64 dev build (10115.0.0, 64.0.3264.0).
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