Yes, this happens all the time. I have to keep firefox open all the time or run my script that down/up the eth0 interface once I close firefox.
I upgraded to xubuntu 6.10 and I'm still having the problem so I think this is with Firefox version 2.02. I have not tried to downgrade firefox yet. -- lose network connectivity after closing firefox https://launchpad.net/bugs/90886 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs