How to stop opening of some sites using Mozilla firefox?



               

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Question:my brother is addicted to some game sites and hence not concentrating on his studies.Plz ..help

Answers:
Firefox doesn't have an intrinsic 'blocking' of certain sites

However you can use certain extensions...according to me the 'blocksite' or 'procon' extension comes close to what you are asking about.Go for blocksite.

Click Tools-> Add ons -> make sure you're in the extension tab -> click get extensions at the bottom. In the page which opens up, type in blocksite in the search field.Click on its link when the page opens up.Finally click Install now to install that extension.

Alternatively, you can edit the hosts file. The hosts file will be located in C:\ windows\ system32\ drivers\ etc (provided your windows is installed in c:\windows)

Open the hosts file with notepad or any text editor of your choice.
At the bottom in a separate line in the file enter:

127.0.0.1 www.google.com

The example line above blocks access to google.com. If a particular site doesn't get blocked, then also enter the site without www and check.For example:

127.0.0.1 google.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com

For each site which you want to block do this, that is place an entry on a separate line like i showed you.

However, this won't block access to all the URLs..some nasty ones will slip through...so you'll have to see which ones get blocked..

Anyway, once you alter the hosts file, save it, and restart firefox..and you'll see that the entries which you placed in the hosts file, those sites would not open ...but they would also not open in any other browser which you have, not only in firefox.

Yet another way is by using third party tools for 'parental control'


If it was possible to block some sites in Firefox--and I am not sure that it is--how could you then know that he hasn't or wouldn't simply undo what you have done?

Maybe a better strategy is to cut off Internet access, or make the Internet connection available only for specific, limited periods of time. (If you can do this, of course.)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox...

however, not sure if it will work on your version or not

Or you can use a host file

http://www.logicaltips.com/lpmarticle.as...
http://www.overclock.net/faqs/44143-how-...
In your control panel, go to Internet Options - then Internet Properties - then click the Security tab

There you can enter sites you want to restrict.
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