Vscode: error: the internet connection appears to be offline

[chrisdias]

to repro:

1. turn off the network (pretend you are on an airplane)
2. start VS Code
3. wait something like 20min

Result:

Expected:
Nothing! Why are we showing this as an Error? What can the user do here? We should just eat this message and never show it because there is nothing I can do and if I'm offline I probably know already because I can't browse Facebook (or Stack Overflow).

[dragfire]

Yeah, it's very annoying.

[isidorn]

Assigning to @joaomoreno since it might be the extensions viewlet / update server

[hruvulum]

Someone trying vscode for the first time is going to wonder _what else_ besides this rather pointless error message is going to frustrate them when they try to use the editor without an internet connection.

[atombender]

It's also annoying that the message appears in _every single window_. I have about 10 projects open at any given time, and this message has to be cleared from all of them.

[ndbroadbent]

At the very least, please add a setting to disable this message. I know I'm offline, and I don't want my editor to tell me about it.

[ndbroadbent]

Actually, maybe this error could be moved to a small header in the Extensions sidebar. Because the only reason you would care about the internet connection is if you are installing or updating extensions.

[joaomoreno]

I was able to repro! This is coming from Squirrel on macOS. It doesn't repro on Windows nor Linux.

It can also look like this:

A server with the specified hostname could not be found.