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Can firefox block a website

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Henrythewound

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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?
 
why do you want to block a website? to deny access to it from a computer? (there's still IE).
 
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?
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Nope. Did you format the entry in the host file correctly? Redirect it to 127.0.0.1
 
I second the Adblock idea.
Block *sitename* (* is wildcard) so anything with sitename in the URL will be banned.
 
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
 
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.
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nice job cubby!
 
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