Bug#557933: epiphany-browser: epiphany refuses to load websites if network manager is running

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:41:42PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 25 novembre 2009 ?? 13:18 +0100, Christoph Hellwig a ??crit : 
> > Package: epiphany-browser
> > Version: 2.26.3-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > I recently installed network manager to experiment around with an umts modem.
> > But once network manager is installed and running epiphany refuses to load
> > any website claiming it's in offline mode.  Removing network manager fixes the
> > issue.
> 
> See /usr/share/doc/epiphany-browser/README.Debian

Sorry, but that's an absolutely dis-satisfactory answer.  Epiphany
basically becomes unuseable by installing something else, which is just
a a braindead default.  One that doesn't actually have any benefits at
all.