When I block a Website in a Netgear Router (website name and IP address), why does Firefox browser let that site come through anyway? IE & Chrome are blocked.
I am trying to block several websites through a Netgear router and it blocks them on all the other browsers. All these browsers are installed as for testing (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera).
This issue is with all versions so far of Firefox browser.
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Hello,
If a website is successfully blocked on your router then I can't see how Firefox can be accessing the page from the internet. I think it must be that some parts of the web page are stored on your computer offline so that when you request the site Firefox is retrieving it from your local PC rather than from the internet.
To solve this you can delete Firefox's store of offline data. Please see the instructions here:
How to clear the Firefox cache
After you have done that the website shouldn't be visible any more.
Please let me know if that doesn't work.
I'll try that when I get home, but I don't think it will help since I don't usually use Facebook and I clicked around the site to foreign-language pages and so forth that I certainly have not visited.
Update: The site is blocked when you use http:// but not when you use https://, which Firefox seems to prefer when it has previously used https on a site.
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