You wrote: > In my preferences "update feedcache on startup" is TRUE. > But yesterday I had problems with my internet connection and the startup > from gPodder was really slow because of this setting. > > So what do you think about an additional check on startup: > If there is no internet connection (e.g: couldn't load/ping > www.gpodder.org) the feedcache won't be updated never mind how the > setting is preset. This is bug 107, "Support for offline mode": http://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107 Do you want to work on it? ;) Thomas