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Description of problem: When I start firefox, "work offline" is always checked. If I uncheck it, then quit firefox, then start firefox again, it is checked. This is new behavior; this problem started just hours ago when I upgraded from firefox 5.0-1. I have, in the past, committed the seemingly mortal sin of unmanaging eth0 with Network Manager. (Why? Because I don't want the mouthbreathing console-sitter raising and lowering the connection willy nilly, nor do I want the computer to try to promiscuously connect to whatever unsecured pox-ridden wireless network the neighbors might be running; I just want it to stick with one, always-up, wired, monogamous network connection. Like in the olden days.) I think I may have even turned the damn thing off. I also, in the past, set toolkit.networkmanager.disable to true, which fixed this very same problem in the past. But the toolkit.networkmanager.disable preference seems to have disappeared. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-5.0-2.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disable NetworkManager. Ensure that eth0 is up and working normally. 2. Start firefox Actual results: "Firefox is offline and can't browse the web" Expected results: Firefox browses the web. Additional info: If the solution to this is to re-enable NetworkManager, then there needs to be a way to tell it to just 'ifup eth0' at boot, and by no means should it cast about to find a willing DHCP server to get together with and make little diseased network connections with.
you can control the offline status by network.manage-offline-status. As for the eth0 config, moving to NetworkManager.
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