Comment 172 for bug 191889

Sorry for spamming this bug, but Dan, I disagree. The facts are:

- Firefox 3 uses NetworkManager to determine whether it's online
- The current version of NetworkManager (0.6) does not support PPP connections
- Some of Firefox's users use PPP
- NetworkManager is installed by default on many distros

Given the above, if we look at it from Firefox's perspective, NetworkManager is not a 100% reliable way of finding out if there is an Internet connection, because there is a class of users for which it fails. These users won't know what the problem is and won't know that they need to disable NetworkManager. And the distros can't disable it for them because they don't know if the users need it for other connections like Ethernet or wifi. So adding a pref to Firefox to allow it not to trust NetworkManager is a reasonable idea.

The pref can default to off (i.e., use NetworkManager), and distros who ship the current version can turn it on in all.js. When NetworkManager 0.7 is released, they can disable it again. Everybody wins.

If NM 0.7 was out now, I'd definitely agree with you. But I think saying that this Firefox feature should only work on an unreleased version of NM is not a reasonable position.

When do you expect NM 0.7 will be released?