Firefox 3 thinks Iam "offline" -- nothing could be further from the truth

I am running ubuntu hardy Alpha. It mostly runs OK, with some glitches
of minor importance.

It has firefox 3. It has a "offline" mode that it enters when I am not
on internet.

The problem is that when I use a "mobile broadband" card as a serial
modem /dev/ttyUSB0, Firefox mistakenly thinks that I am offline. I am
not. So I have to turn the offline mode off, and then manually reload
all windows.

I do not really give a flying fsck about offline mode and do not use
firefox when I am offline. So I just want to never enter that offline
mode, or, even better, teach firefox to recognizethat I am
online. Maybe mention ppp0 in /etc/network/interfaces.

Any ideas?

i

On Mar 12, 7:48 pm, Ignoramus25581 <ignoramus25...@NOSPAM.
25581.invalid> wrote:
> I do not really give a flying fsck about offline mode and do not use
> firefox when I am offline. So I just want to never enter that offline
> mode, or, even better, teach firefox to recognizethat I am
> online. Maybe mention ppp0 in /etc/network/interfaces.

I don't know a good solution to your problem, but this extension can
probably at least save you a few mouse clicks:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/493

DS

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:48:28 -0500, Ignoramus25581
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>It has firefox 3. It has a "offline" mode that it enters when I am not
>on internet.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>i

Report the "automatic offline" to the develppers as a bug ?
After all, FF 3 is _Beta_
--
buck