This whole question about firefox coming up every single time in offline mode is a real pain. The message below was a fix that I found on the net on how to patch the problem.
But recently, the problem came back, probably because of some update I made. The change that I made had been reverted. This time, I poked further on the net and came up with
http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu-user/82245-firefox-3-how-avoid-offline-m...
where somone says that I should toggle
about:config toolkit.networkmanager.disable and set it to "true"
Ok, I did that and the problem seems to now be fixed. I guess that means I don't have anything to complain about. I'm sorry, but Ijust don't get it! Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1) and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old network. If my eth0 and eth1 were to be started by NW, would that have caused me to not see this problem?
I'd just really like to understand this better.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:07:53 From: Steven W. Orr steveo@syslang.net Reply-To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." fedora-list@redhat.com To: Fedora List fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Firefox, dbus and NetworkManager OH MY
Now that I'm running F10, I notice that every time I start firefox, it comes up in offline mode. I can only browse by going to online mode. Very annoying. I googled around and found that those wacky guys over in ubuntu country had figgered it out. Here's the deal: Change every instance in
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf
of
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/> to <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
and then do a service NetworkManager restart and your new firefox will come up online.
Also, I am running my network over a DHCP connection to my cablemodem provider, so it's not really clear to me that NetworkManager should even be doing *anything*.
I want to be a good Netizen and report this to bugzilla. My question is this: Is this a firefox, a NetworkManager or a dbus bug?
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:25:16 -0500 (EST) Steven W. Orr wrote:
I'm sorry, but Ijust don't get it! Is everyone also coming up in offline mode?
I've never seen that problem. But I wait until my network connection is up (the little balls stop spinning and it tells me "You are connected to...") before loading Firefox.
Hi,
Ok, I did that and the problem seems to now be fixed. I guess that means I don't have anything to complain about. I'm sorry, but Ijust don't get it! Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1) and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old network. If my eth0 and eth1 were to be started by NW, would that have caused me to not see this problem?
I'd just really like to understand this better.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolkit.networkmanager.disable
regards, - steve
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:25 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1) and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old network.
And have you stopped the NetworkManager service? If not, it could be saying that you're offline because *it* hasn't made a connection. Regardless of any other connections that are on.
If my eth0 and eth1 were to be started by NW, would that have caused me to not see this problem?
That would be right.
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:08 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:25 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1) and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old network.
And have you stopped the NetworkManager service? If not, it could be saying that you're offline because *it* hasn't made a connection. Regardless of any other connections that are on.
If my eth0 and eth1 were to be started by NW, would that have caused me to not see this problem?
That would be right.
Correct. NM thinks that if it doesn't handle the connection, then there is no connection, and the rest of the system that asks NM (including Firefox, Evolution and probably lots of others) get confused.
poc
On Sunday, Jan 18th 2009 at 01:38 -0000, quoth Tim:
=>On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:25 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> Is everyone also coming up in offline mode? Yes, my eth0 (and my eth1) =>> and not under NetworkManager, they are just started by good old =>> network. => =>And have you stopped the NetworkManager service? If not, it could be =>saying that you're offline because *it* hasn't made a connection. =>Regardless of any other connections that are on.
I have *not* stopped NetworkManager but I will if you can tell me that's the right thing to do. If I run system-config-network, I can see that eth0 and eth1 are *not* controlled by NW. But it only shows me those two interfaces. Am I confident that lo0 is not controlled by MW?
=>> If my eth0 and eth1 were to be started by NW, would that have caused =>> me to not see this problem? => =>That would be right. =>
Tim:
And have you stopped the NetworkManager service? If not, it could be saying that you're offline because *it* hasn't made a connection. Regardless of any other connections that are on.
Steven W. Orr:
I have *not* stopped NetworkManager but I will if you can tell me that's the right thing to do. If I run system-config-network, I can see that eth0 and eth1 are *not* controlled by NW. But it only shows me those two interfaces. Am I confident that lo0 is not controlled by MW?
If you're not using it to control your interfaces, then turn the service off, permanently. It's not needed.