autodialer driving me nuts

Running an Acer laptop, PII, 6 gig HD, 4 gig free, 128 RAM. I've got
S&D, AVG, and Adaware that I run frequently with usually miminal to no
problems. Box generally runs fine for what I need and do. Internet
connection is dialup (DSL not in my area yet) but I can live with it for
now.
Current problem is that after d'loading Firefox to try for a browser,
my ISP connection box pops up all the time when I open up Firefox even if I
want to work offline. Used to only happen to IE6 twice after opening IE6.
I'd click out twice and then a box would pop up that said the server could
not be reached. After that nothing would pop up unless I opened up another
instance of either IE6 or OE to read some newsgroups offline.
Now if I open up Firefox (offline) the damn ISP connection box just
keeps popping up relentlessly countless times.
I've got the box checked in IE6 to "never dial a connection" but it
keeps resetting itself to "dial whenever a network connection is not
present".
I suspect a reg setting somewhere but can't find it for the life of
me.
As far as I can see, Firefox doesn't have such an option.

Will try that. I did see somewhere in the options menu that by default ,
check for updates for firefox was enabled. I've disabled it and will see if
this helps too.

That is what fixed it when I had the same behaviour from Firefox.
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"the staring frogs of Southern Iberia" hunyakatnetscape.com wrote in message
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Will try that. I did see somewhere in the options menu that by default ,
check for updates for firefox was enabled. I've disabled it and will see if
this helps too.

Unchecking the option to update Firefox automatically seems to have
helped in this respect.