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Firefox DNS resolution, not respecting /etc/hosts

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Facebook still keep oppening regardless I added the folowwing in my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost www.facebook.com facebook.com

Facebook still keep oppening regardless I added the folowwing in my /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost www.facebook.com facebook.com

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Looks like in the DNS cache it has.

I just deleted the DNS cache and it works.

I depleted the DNS cache by setting the configuration value network.dnsCacheEntries to 0.

After navigating to the pages I wanted to redirecto to localhost, I restored the network.dnsCacheEntries value to 400 (it's original value).

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Looks like in the DNS cache it has.

I just deleted the DNS cache and it works.

I depleted the DNS cache by setting the configuration value network.dnsCacheEntries to 0.

After navigating to the pages I wanted to redirecto to localhost, I restored the network.dnsCacheEntries value to 400 (it's original value).