SOLVED: Re: firefox always starts offline

[cornel panceac]

2010/9/2 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>

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> 2010/9/2 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>
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> something strange happens on one of my test pcs running f14 (updated).
>> firefox always starts in offline mode. i uncheck work offline and
>> eevrythings fine until i close and start again firefox, when it's in offline
>> mode again. what could be the problem? NetworkManager is stopped because
>> it's not working.
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>> more: if i remove .mozilla , it starts online, first time. second time etc
> it goes offline again. if i go into about:config, there's no browser.offline
> key. after i uncheck first time the work offline  in file menu, then a
> browser.offline key is created which is *false* when work offline is
> *unchecked*, and browser is online. something looks messed in firefox, but i
> have no idea what :)
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> please help!
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> as i've learned here:

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_threshold=0&comments_parentId=11503&comments_offset=20&comments_per_page=20&thread_style=commentStyle_plain

"from *about:config* set *toolkit.networkmanager.disable* to be true."

now it starts online.

it remains a mistery why this is the first pc where i see this behaviour
even if i installed fedora 14 on other computers and everywhere i had to
enable network and disable NetworkManager to connect to the network and
firefox worked ok.

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