Bluetooth and firefox

[John Abreau]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM, leftyfb <leftyfb at left-click.org> wrote:
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> Firefox had an issue where it wouldn't detect connections which weren't
> wired or wireless. I had the same issue with my EVDO adapter when
> dialing up via PPP. I thought this was fixed with the latest Firefox.
> Either way, the workaround is to go to File -> uncheck "work offline".
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Ewwww. Why in the world is Firefox mucking about with networking
like that? It's the OS's job to provide that functionality.



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