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independed dns -hosts file for portable firefoxSubmitted by shuka on May 13, 2009 - 3:12am
Hi, I use portable firefox with my flash disk and I need specific hosts file. I cant change hosts file which is on computers. (some of them are public computers and some of them is restricted) is that possible something like tahat - to start firefox: thanks. ( categories: )
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Nope
The hosts file is OS-level, not browser level.
Hosts files aren't really required as you could easily accomplish this with direct IP access or, if it's dynamic, a service like dyndns.org.
If you're trying to use it to block ads or malware, there are far better ways to accomplish that.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
It depends
I don't think we can give more than a general answer to your question unless we know how you are using the hosts file.
One option that comes to mind might be to configure FF to use a proxy on an external machine you control, and tell FF to send DNS queries through the proxy. (Some proxy settings still use your local DNS unless you specifically ask for them to be sent, see network.proxy.socks_remote_dns.)
I suppose if you had a virtualized environment of some sort (e.g. boot from a LiveCD) you could configure your own hosts and DNS, but that can be as difficult as getting permission to tweak the hosts file.
Those are about the only ways I know of that let you set up your own hosts file and DNS configuration separate from the machine you are running on.
Maybe you could create a FF plugin that would do what you want? I can see where it might be handy to be able to do it.
MC
Hi, Thx for your answers. if
Hi, Thx for your answers.
if I can use different DNS server from my proxyserver it will be ok but I cant do that. is that possible, using a different proxy fr only DNS?