firefox defaults to offline

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/02/2014 03:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Or actually configure NetworkManager consistently. IOW if NM is running,
> you need to check that it is managing the network interface, otherwise
> some apps (Evolution being another one) will think the network is down
> when it isn't.

Several years ago, yumex started acting strangely: it had no trouble 
checking for updates, but when I told it to download and install the 
updates it would claim that it was off-line.  I ended up disabling the 
network check completely because in the unlikely event that my network 
connection were down, I'd not be running yumex.  My attitude toward this 
is that *I* am the network check.