Can firefox block a website

[Henrythewound]

I need to block a website from being accessed through firefox. I cant find an option and googling has not been helpful (1st time for everything). Any tricks you might know?

 

[Zee]

adblock the url

 

[Henrythewound]

where do I put the url in?

 

[BigToque]

add the site to your hosts file

 

[fs5]

why do you want to block a website? to deny access to it from a computer? (there's still IE).

 

[Henrythewound]

I tried adding it to the hosts file and it did not seem to take effect. Does it require a restart or something?

 

[TheChort]

as far as i know the only restart you should need is closing firefox and opening it again

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Henrythewound
I tried adding it to the hosts file and it did not seem to take effect. Does it require a restart or something?

Nope. Did you format the entry in the host file correctly? Redirect it to 127.0.0.1

 

[hypn0tik]

Caught someone surfing pr0n?

 

[Lonyo]

I second the Adblock idea.
Block *sitename* (* is wildcard) so anything with sitename in the URL will be banned.

 

[Henrythewound]

it is not a www.xxxx.com address. It begins with http://xxxx.xxxx.com. Can the host file block this as well?

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Caught someone surfing pr0n?

I think I tries to aviod beeing sucked into ATOT.

Resistance is futile............

 

[LS20]

i believe you can use wildcard in the host... so direct *.xxxx.com to localhost

 

[mwtgg]

I would just block it using a router, if you have one.

 

[cubby1223]

Hosts file is definately the best way, you're obviously just not doing it correctly. Edit the HOSTS file, in windows\system32\drivers\etc and add the lines:
127.0.0.1 www.xxx.com
127.0.0.1 xxx.com

I believe you have to get each variant of the url, xxx.com will not cover www.xxx.com.


EDIT - I just tested and you do need to list both variants

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
Hosts file is definately the best way, you're obviously just not doing it correctly. Edit the HOSTS file, in windows\system32\drivers\etc and add the lines:
127.0.0.1 www.xxx.com
127.0.0.1 xxx.com

I believe you have to get each variant of the url, xxx.com will not cover www.xxx.com.

nice job cubby!

 

[Zee]

click on Adblock -> new filter -> type in the Url -> finish.