Firefox opens with "work offline" checked, and I can't get it unchecked
I turned on my computer this morning, and Firefox keeps telling me "problems loading page" because "work offline" is checked. I've never checked it, and when I uncheck it, Firefox still won't open. I close everything and try again, with the same result. Restarting has the same effect.
I tried using about:config and looking for toolkit.networkmanager.disable to change the value from false to true but I couldn't find toolkit.manager anywhere in the list that appears. ?!?
Apparently some updates were loaded last night, but I have no idea if they involved firefox.
Any suggestions would be very welcome - I am "technologically Amish" and so frustrated.
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The pref toolkit.networkmanager.disable only works in Linux, so if you have created that pref then you can reset that pref to the default (right-click: Reset) and it will be removed if you close and restart Firefox.
You can create a new Boolean pref with the name network.manage-offline-status and set the value to false.
You can right-click on the about:config page to open the right-click context menu and use "New > Boolean" to create a new Boolean pref.
Name: network.manage-offline-status
Value: false
I know the Firefox developers had good reasons for introducing this feature, but they failed to consider their users who are web developers.
I've installed a web server on my computer to help with web design, and I access the homepage through http://localhost
However this won't work in offline mode, and (with my dial-up connection and all) it's not practical to always dial in to my ISP just to have Firefox start in online mode, plus I don't need to be *actually/literally* online to access my local web server. And the extra clicks to File -> Work Offline are a pain.
The best option IMHO would be to provide a pain-free way to disable this setting for advanced users. Emphasis on *pain-free*.
My 2 cents, for myself and (hopefully) on behalf of the poor, forgotten web designers out there.