Add pref to ignore network manager state changes

[Kávássy Dániel]

When Firefox starts it complains it works offline and does not load pages.

Unchecking "work offline" box in the menu _every_ time when Firefox is newly started, solves the problem.

I have DHCP internet connection.
my ff version: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

[Thomas Templin (coastgnu)]

Paket Name: firefox
Release: Ubuntu 8.04 hardy
Version: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

I can confirm this bug.
Once the Offline-Mode is enabled firefox stays in offline-mode on every start even when offline-mode is disabled when leaving a firefox session. Offline-mode has to be disabled on every startup.

Irritating to me is that in all prefs.js files it is set to false:

 user_pref("browser.offline", false);

I Did a:
find $HOME/mozilla/ -exec grep -iH offline {} \;

[John Bariou (jbariou)]

3.05b does this to me on Hardy too.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

we are using this bug to track the wishlist bug to ignore network manager state changes.

[pheeror (pheeror)]

I'm definitely for ignoring (or better amending) this network manager feature, especially because network manager is broken and many of us are forced to use workarounds to connect to networks :-( , but even if it wasn't broken, the algorithm should consider that someone isn't using network manager to connect to the net at the moment.
cheers

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 07:11:43PM -0000, Lukáš Vacek wrote:
> I'm definitely for ignoring (or better amending) this network manager feature, especially because network manager is broken and many of us are forced to use workarounds to connect to networks :-( , but even if it wasn't broken, the algorithm should consider that someone isn't using network manager to connect to the net at the moment.
> cheers
>

FWIW, yes, NM has some missnig features, but most issues in regards to
wireless especially are due to buggy drivers.

So, NM is definitly the right way to go in the long run.

 - Alexander

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

fixed in NM 0.7 in intrepid ... also firefox has a pref to ignore NM completely now (though not needed)