502521 - Firefox AlWAYS opens Offline after 3.5 Update Not Linux machine

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

I've read the Bugzilla article about changing toolkit.networkmanager.disable to true in about:config

Unfortunately that line doesn't seem to be in my XP version of about:config

I googled the problem and didn't find it reported for XP.

 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. any restart of Firefox 3.5
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Actual Results:  
This machine is an older AMD CPU running XP sp3. 
I am in a rural area and the connection is dialup, which worked fine previously.

When looking at about:config there are a LOT of entries for NoScript; I have a few other addons as well, but all have been installed for several update cycles without problem. 


My network connections box in XP has changed behavior as well.
 
A rightclick on the lower right toolbar icon used to always open a Disconnect menu; now {sometimes} it will only open Network Connections

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

If you start Firefox before you finish connecting via dialup Firefox will start in the offline mode.

toolkit.networkmanager.disable only applies to Firefox for Linux.

Comment 2

[A. Glez. B.]

Same here, and FF is kind of erratic when there isn't a network connection enabled all the time, but since 3.5 is far worse.
Isn't there some config switch to keep FF 3.5 ALWAYS online? I'd like to ged rid of or at least disable FF network detection. As side note both FF 1.5-3.0 and TB 1.5-3.0 behave almost fine, is just FF 3.5-3.6 where this is really anoying.

Comment 3

[A. Glez. B.]

By the way. I posted Bug 500369 a while ago for this very same issue.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.