"JD" <JD@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> Retired wrote:
>> JD<JD@example.invalid> wrote in
>> news:6vSdnZsl3IoZYjbTnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@posted.grand ecom:
>>
>>> Retired wrote:
>>>> http://mewnlite.com/unable.jpg
>>>> There oughta be a way browsers could detect when a site is being
>>>> blocked by a hosts file and return a friendlier& much shorter
>>>> message!
>>>>
>>>
>>> This works for SeaMonkey, which uses Firefox as it's browser:
>>>
>>> about:config
>>>
>>> Set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to false.
>>
>> You da man! Works like a charm. There's still blank space there but that's
>> much prettier than all that "unable to connect garbage".
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>
> You're welcome! Not my solution but always glad to share what I've learned
> from this and other newsgroups. And I really didn't like the unable to connect
> garbage. Kind of defeated the purpose of the HOSTS file.

That is not the purpose of the HOSTS file anyway. It is being misused as
a filter. Better would be an actual firewall.