Hi,

I'm running Firefox 1.5 on Suse 10 and everytime firefox starts, it always activate the Work Offline option... I tried completely uninstalling the program and reinstalling, but that didn't fix the problem...

Any suggestions?

The problem won't be in the software installation but in your local prefs.js file. Rename ~/.mozilla/firefox/{profiledir}/prefs.js and then start Firefox again - the problem will be gone. When that solves it you can rename prefs.js back and edit it, looking for the relevant setting.

you're right. The problem is in prefs.js. Whenever I open firefox, FF modify prefs.js so it reads:

# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
*
* If you make changes to this file while the application is running,
* the changes will be overwritten when the application exits.
*
* To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
* For more information, see mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
*/

user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.addon-background-update-timer", 1134416147);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.background-update-timer", 1134416147);
user_pref("browser.offline", true);
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);

Even if I set the boolean to false, FF resets it to true...

Any idea why?

Check the extensions - maybe you have an extension which is causing the problem? What happens if you launch firefox with the safe mode command line argument?

Nope, safemode doesn't fix the problem. Could it be FF having problems detecting my internet connection?

I am having the same problem. Deleting the prefs.js file does not fix the problem. It creates the file again with the offline parameter set to false, yet it still starts up offline. Also, editing the file directly has no effect. Has anyone been able to find a fix for this?

Using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060425 SUSE/1.5.0.3-7 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Hi allelopath,

The problem on my system was caused because Firefox wasn't able to detect my Internet Connection, so it's started offline. That was caused by a mistake on my part on the DHCP Clients. I had installed dhcpcd & dhcp3 one on top of the other and they conflicted... There is probably something in your internet configuration that makes Firefox thinks you're offline...

Shooters

I think you are correct. I have 3 machines running linux. The problem only occurs on the machine with dialup (others are DSL). So this machine starts up without being connected to the internet, whereas the DSL ones are connected all the time. The trick is to make Firefox automagically aware of the connection after dialing-in. I don't know how to do that.