michael lefevre wrote: > In article <6xLj8.35076$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TazMainiac wrote: > >>I have a HOSTS file that maps many ad servers to 0.0.0.0 >>(see http://www.smartin-designs.com). >> >>In versions of Mozilla prior to 0.9.9, this worked wonderfully. > > > it did? i had dialogs popping up all over the place in 0.9.7 and .9.8 > just the same... > > >>Now in 0.9.9, I'm getting "The connection was refused when >>attempting to contact <site>" pop-up. This is *highly* >>annoying. How do I stop it? > > > you can't stop those pop-ups. there is a RFE filed to change the pop-ups > into placeholder pages, which should sort things out if and when it gets > implemented - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28586 > > as a workaround, what you can do is point the hosts entries at the IP of > a webserver that exists (maybe you have one running on your local > network, or run one yourself?) - then mozilla will get 404s back from > that server, instead of connection refused messages, and you won't get > the annoying dialogs. >
I think that is what he said is that it doesn't work anymore, is the work around.. -dman84
