Static interface-addresses and Firefox/Thunderbird off-line mode

[Lars E. Pettersson]

At work I have a system with static interface addresses. I.e. I have set 
the IP-numbers outside of NetworkManager, I even did not have 
NetworkManager installed (can not see any reason for that on a system 
that is stationary and have static IP_addresses).

Since I upgraded this system from Fedora-14 to Fedora-16 Firefox and 
Thunderbird starts up in off-line mode. I installed NetworkManager to 
see if that helped. But they still start up in off-line mode, which is 
annoying as the network is there and has been since the computer was 
started.

Anyone else had this problem? Or anyone out there that can give me a 
pointer on how to get Firefox and Thunderbird started in on-line mode, 
just as it was in Fedora-14?

I am using Gnome3 in forced fall-back mode.

Lars
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