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

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/04/2011 05:52 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't have your problem...  But there is one thing you can try....

In Firefox go to "about:config" and set network.manage-offline-status to
false

In Thunderbird set toolkit.networkmanger.disable to true

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