On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:20:17 +0000 (UTC), Jannah Jankowski
wrote:

How can that possibly be that Firefox doesn't respect the hosts file?

It's probably more that the network services more generally don't
respect the hosts file until they are restarted. Does hosts get
respected after a reboot?
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