____/ Ignoramus15568 on Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:13 : \____
> On 2008-04-15, Colin Wilson
> <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Colin, what do you think about
>>> [Bug 191889] Re: Firefox's new "Offline Mode" feature cannot properly
>>> it causes quite a consternation amongst Hardy beta users, myself
>>> included. Any idea if you guys have any plans to address it?
>>
>> I'm not a developer myself, but it sounds like it's an issue with
>> Firefox 3 in particular, as it sounds like Firefox 2 worked as it
>> should.
>>
>> It might be that while it's still in beta, they're working on the
>> issue.
>
> Colin, to give you a brief synopsis, the issue is that Firefox, Pidgin
> etc rely on dbus and NetworkManager to check if they are
> online. NetworkManager does not work with a lot of dialup and cell
> phone and wireless broadband modems and if we dial on our own from
> command line. Thus it thinks that the computer is offline (despite having
> an obvious default route etc).
>
> That causes all these programs to start in offline mode, which is realy
> annoying.
>
> I had to downgrade to firefox-2 due to this.
Firefox 3.0 is still a couple of months away. Use in a production-type
environment at own risk... or file a bug report.
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