Firefox, dbus and NetworkManager OH MY (redux)

[Tim]

Tim:
> And have you stopped the NetworkManager service?  If not, it could be
> saying that you're offline because *it* hasn't made a connection.
> Regardless of any other connections that are on.

Steven W. Orr:
> I have *not* stopped NetworkManager but I will if you can tell me
> that's the right thing to do. If I run system-config-network, I can
> see that eth0 and eth1 are *not* controlled by NW. But it only shows
> me those two interfaces. Am I confident that lo0 is not controlled by
> MW?

If you're not using it to control your interfaces, then turn the service
off, permanently.  It's not needed.

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