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You can, but you  need the Wi-Fire Connection Manager running to connect to WiFi networks with the Wi-Fire.  If you really don’t want it to start automatically, you can open System Preferences then click on the Accounts pane.  Click on the Login Items tab and look for the Wi-Fire Connection Manager on the list of login items.  Select it and click the minus icon to delete it from the list.  The next time you restart Wi-Fire Connection Manager will not load automatically.  You can load it manually by double clicking on it in /Applications/.