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Old June 30th 16, 05:51 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Jannah Jankowski
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Default Why does Firefox not respect the HOSTS file in Windows

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:50:40 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

These 3 relate to cahing:
| network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod;60 [set to 0]
| network.dnsCacheExpiration;60 [set to 0]
| network.dnsCacheEntries;400 [set to 0]

| network.dns.offline-localhost;true ?
| network.dns.localDomains; ?
| network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains;
| network.dns.get-ttl;true ?
| network.dns.disablePrefetch;false [I set this to true. Prefetch is a
ridiculous,
privacy-compromising function to download files from
links
at
pages you visit, just in case you decide to click those
links!]

| network.dns.disableIPv6;false [probably fine]
| network.dns.blockDotOnion;true ??
|



In addition to the 30 things done already, I have now added your
suggestions above:

31: I changed from
network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod;60
to
network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod;0

32. I changed from
network.dnsCacheExpiration;60
to
network.dnsCacheExpiration;0

33. I changed from
network.dnsCacheEntries;400
to
network.dnsCacheEntries;0

34. And I returned disable prefetch to the default setting of true:
network.dns.disablePrefetch;true
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