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Old June 29th 16, 06:52 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Stormin' Norman
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Default Why does Firefox not respect the HOSTS file in Windows

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:20:17 +0000 (UTC), Jannah Jankowski
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Why does Firefox not respect the HOSTS file in Windows?
http://i.cubeupload.com/P0jKaY.jpg

In my hosts file are entries to block sites that show up as connections
that Firefox makes, even when Firefox is in SAFE MODE.

How can that be possible?

1. I add an entry to the Windows hosts file and SAVE it.
2. I start Firefox in SAFE mode.
3. Firefox _still_ shows up as "ESTABLISHED" to that rogue site.

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

Where do these rogue connections come from anyway?
http://i.cubeupload.com/T274r0.jpg



------------------ Here are just the first six of amazonaws --------
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-25-189-162.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-26-2-199.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-148-80-75.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-213-112-246.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-213-123-171.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-69-9-44.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox safemode
------------------ Here are just the first six of cloudfront --------
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-10.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-129.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-141.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-205.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-28.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-7.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
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This might be of help:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1011327
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