Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #191889
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 191889

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Daniel Newman (dmnewman) wrote : Re: Firefox always start in offline mode (dial up connections not properly handled by network-manager)

This **is** a firefox bug. Firefox should be looking for a http server at its specified home page, either on its own machine or on the network, to decide whether or not to start offline. Even better, firefox should default to starting online and let those who need the oddities of a web browser without web access switch it to offline if they so require.

One of my machines is set with its default home page on its own http server (at localhost), and I find it quite illogical for it to tell me every time it is opened that it can't find the home page - the real problem is that it hasn't looked for it.

This is a firefox bug, as distinct from network-manager's inept handling of dial-up connections.