[gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Miernik]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Hong Hao]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:22:45AM +0200, 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.
> 
> 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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> Miernik
> http://miernik.name/
> 
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Do you compile your filefox with networkmanager USE flag?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Miernik]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Hong Hao]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:14:49AM +0200, Miernik wrote:
 
> 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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I'm not sure, If you have NetworkManger installed, try to stop the
service. This might help:
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=60433

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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Miernik]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Alan McKinnon]

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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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Miernik]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

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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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