Comment 173 for bug 191889

Some distros probably turned on NM 0.6 by default before it was ready for the majority of that distros userbase. We didn't turn NM on by default in Fedora until Fedora 9 mainly because we felt that only NM 0.7 covered enough use-cases to be turned on by default (PPP for example).

I can't help what distros that I don't have control over do with NM, that's Open Source at its best (or worst). The distro's users have to deal with the consequences of that distros decisions.

I don't personally have a problem with FF having this preference. I'm simply correcting mistaken viewpoints and impressions that people and distros have about NM.