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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by JustSomeNobody on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:03PM (#10275882)
I use alternate host files.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by pbhjpbhj on Friday September 25, 2015 @08:16AM (#10277666)
I used to do that but found it ultimately too fiddly - like if you need to unblock a site manually editing your etc/hosts, then you have to get your browser to refresh it's DNS cache.

Do you use an app to manage your hosts file?

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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by JustSomeNobody on Friday September 25, 2015 @08:56AM (#10277841)
I use GasMask on OS X. Makes switching through host files a breeze.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29949/gas-mask

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