I installed a new Gentoo installation, and now when I open Firefox I get:


Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web.

The browser is operating in its offline mode and cannot connect to the
requested item.

* Is the computer connected to an active network?
* Place the browser in online mode and try again.


My computer is surely connected to an active network, I can wget without
problems, and of course I can go to the File menu and switch off the
stupid "Offline" mode, but I don't want to do that every time I start
Firefox, so why does he put me in this mode in the first place? What can
I do to have Firefox start normally, like it does in Debian?

It's a pity that Linux applications start to behave more and more like
MS-Windows ones - they do what THEY think is best instead of letting the
user do what he wants. I want to browse the web and I am online, while
the stupid program thinks I am offline, and prevents me to browse the
web.

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Hong Hao <oahong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you compile your filefox with networkmanager USE flag?

Hmm, I don't know, there is nothing like that in flags:

przehyba ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1 USE="bindist dbus
ipv6 startup-notification xulrunner -gnome -iceweasel -java -mozdevelop
-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -ca -cs -da -de -el -en
-en_GB -en_US -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu
-gu_IN -he -hu -id -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn
-nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -sq -sr -sv
-sv_SE -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
przehyba ~ #

przehyba ~ # cat /etc/make.conf | grep network
przehyba ~ #

przehyba ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use | grep network
przehyba ~ #

Should I, or shouldn't I add any flag?

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Hong Hao <oahong@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure, If you have NetworkManger installed, try to stop the
> service.

No, I don't:

przehyba ~ # emerge --search networkmanager | egrep "*|installed"
* kde-misc/knetworkmanager [ Masked ]
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* net-misc/networkmanager
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* net-misc/networkmanager-openvpn [ Masked ]
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* net-misc/networkmanager-pptp [ Masked ]
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc [ Masked ]
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* xfce-extra/pynetworkmanager [ Masked ]
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
przehyba ~ #

przehyba ~ # ps ax | grep [e]twork
przehyba ~ #

> This might help:
> http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=60433

Lots of discussion about this annoyance, but no definitive solution.
Seems to depend on the distro, so I would like pointers specifically
about fixing this on Gentoo.

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On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Miernik wrote:
> I installed a new Gentoo installation, and now when I open Firefox I
> get:
>
>
> Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web.

This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today



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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today

Installed it, and the problem is solved - thanks!

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This also seemed to work:


--- /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf.~1~ 2008-07-11
06:14:13.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf 2008-07-14
22:59:22.000000000 -0700

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
<policy context="default">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
<allow
send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>

- <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
+ <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
send_member="state"/>

</policy>

<limit name="max_replies_per_connection">512</limit>

Given the huge amount of negative reaction to this "feature"
especially on Ubuntu forums, I hope that it'll be backed out for *all*
applications.


--- Vladimir

on 07/17/2008 08:17 AM Alan McKinnon said the following:

On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Miernik wrote:

I installed a new Gentoo installation, and now when I open Firefox I
get:


Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web.


This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today





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