Comment 395 for bug 191889

Jeremy, the localhost problem is a valid issue and is a different bug, please file it.

Besides from that we want to use a service to determine online/offline state; this would allow us to improve user experience in many ways; the fact that network manager is not able to manage all types of connections is unfortunate, but isn't a problem for the majority of our users. For now if you are struck by this, disable the feature using about:config.

Also, be assured that we are unhappy about the current situation and are working on real solutions to the problem; one idea is to move online/offline detection to a dedicated and connection-manager-independent service that can deal with all type of connections. So stay tuned. Thanks for your patience.