Firefox host file equivalent

[flyingdoggystyle]

What is the firefox equivalent to IE's host file? I want to block a few web sites from my computer and don't know how to do it.

Thanks

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

The hosts file will block/redirect when FF browsing also. I believe it functions as part of TCP.

 

[flyingdoggystyle]

I'm an idiot. I didn't even try to modify the hosts file. I got caught up with the Mozilla hostperm.1 file. I still can not modify the file to block images from web sites, but all I really wanted to do was block the entire web site.

Thank you for the help!

 

[wherzwaldo]

Tools -> Options -> Web Features -> Exceptions (Load Images)

Is that what you meant?

 

[UT98]

He is talking about the hosts text file where you define IP addresses for remote host names. Any host you assign to 127.0.0.1 (loopback address) will be blocked. Adaware puts a lot of ad servers in here.

Anyway it looks like he figured it out. The hosts file is not application specific. TCP/IP uses it, so any TCP/IP app will use the hosts file.

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

UT98,

Ad-Aware uses it? I know that Spybot has a hosts file editor, and gives you the option use using their canned listing of blockable sites to add to the hosts file, but I never saw anything related to that on Ad-Aware. I'll have to check it out.

 

[UT98]

Yeah adaware puts a lot of ad servers in there and routes them to 127.0.0.1. I don't think it gives you a choice. There's no way you would actually know unless you opened up the hosts file in a text editor.

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

Well, I've had Ad-Aware for a few years now, and in looking at it this evening, I see nothing in the options dealing with the host file, except for the option to have it scanned. And my hosts file is empty.

 

[mynametaken]

Firefox has image blocking. You can also add the adblock extention and block sites easily from the browser. Host files were nice for IE before Firefox came along.