I have a custom hosts file that blocks some time-wasting websites. I use cron to switch it to /etc/hosts at certain times during the day, and then to set the hosts file back to normal during other times.
For the past while, however, Firefox seems to be ignoring the hosts file.
If I ping the site, it pings 127.0.0.1 (which is what it's set to do in the custom hosts file). If I try to open the site in Chromium, I get an error message as expected. So I know that cron and the hosts file are both working. But even if I clear my cache and close and re-open Firefox, it still loads the sites.
Any idea what's going on here?
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