Firefox defaults to offline mode depending on connection method

[Sissy]

I've been using knetworkmanager with few problems ever since the upgrade to Lucid, but I prefer to connect/disconnect from the wireless network using the CLI, and I just found out that this actually works in Lucid (seemed to be broken for me in Karmic).

Anyhow, if I connect to a wireless network using knetworkmanager, then start Firefox, it connects to my home page with no problem.
If instead I connect to the network using the terminal via

sudo ifup wlan0

then Firefox starts in offline mode, always. I know the network connection is fine because if I uncheck "Work Offline" in the File menu, then everything works beautifully. Can someone point me to a setting that will allow me to make "online mode" the default for Firefox, no matter how I connect to the network?

(I've found the same problem in both KDE3.5 and KDE4, so I think it's a Firefox issue... I haven't tried it in GNOME.)

[Snowhog]

Re: Firefox defaults to offline mode depending on connection method

I think you want to do the following. Start Firefox. Type about:config in the URL. Type online in the Filter. This will present you with the Preference Name entry:

network.online

Which is set to 'true' (on) be default. Double-click the entry to change it to 'false'

[Sissy]

Re: Firefox defaults to offline mode depending on connection method

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I checked about:config again, and it seems that Firefox has remembered my change, but it still starts in offline mode.