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Old July 2nd 16, 09:39 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Why does Firefox not respect the HOSTS file in Windows

In message , Jannah Jankowski
writes:
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]

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

[]
Of those three, I only _have_ the first one (GracePeriod), which is
currently at its default of 2592000; has the unit of measure changed at
some point (Firefox version)?

What do the three things mean? (Provided it "runs down" in a reasonable
period, say a minute or few, I can't see a problem with caching DNS
data: prefetch, indeed, could be not a good idea. I have _that_ one
turned off [...disablePrefetch set to true].)
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