Irritating Net Nannies (Firefox!)

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  • September 17, 2017 at 2:58 pm #11786
    Ed PEd P
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      I loath systems that curtail what you do – for your own good! Unfortunately Firefox has joined those ranks and is preventing me from going to an address on my local network!

      My home security system gives me a facility to locally monitor its activities via the LAN – 192.168.1xx.x:xx. Firefox now refuses to go there quoting:

      “This Address is Restricted“. Unfortunately the work around does not work for me and I’m still prevented from going there!

      Although there may be some twisted logic in this restriction, I see not logic at all in extending it to the 192 x x x or 10.x.x.x ranges.

      September 17, 2017 at 5:13 pm #11794
      Alan WoodAlan Wood
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        Tried several 192.168 addresses in Firefox without ant problem

        September 17, 2017 at 5:22 pm #11795
        JukeboxJukebox
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          Maybe it’s just a typo but aren’t LAN addresses normally 192.168.x.xxx not 192.168.1xx.x?

          September 17, 2017 at 6:35 pm #11809
          Ed PEd P
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            I’m not sure that you can test it without a valid address . From the linked write-up the PORT (not the URL) is the part that is blocked.

            “It seems as a security touch to Firefox it is now blocking non standard HTTP port”

            The LAN address was pretty normal in appearance except it used port 81

            [edit] there was a minor typo in my example LAN address, it should have read

            192. 168. xxx. xxx:81

             

            September 17, 2017 at 6:58 pm #11816
            Dave RiceDave Rice
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              Local IP addresses are no problem, I use FF to access loads of different kit in this way.

              However it is driving me crazy with warning me that putting a password into a site accessed by http and not https is unsafe even when it’s on my network! The pop up gets right in the way, but luckily I’ve found out how to turn it off. I just wish that this setting was one that synced.

              I’ve started using IE11 for most things like this now as WebComponents plugins just don’t work with newer versions of FF and Chrome.

              September 17, 2017 at 7:59 pm #11818
              Ed PEd P
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                Local SHOULD be no problem, and that was my big issue. Thinking about it, maybe it would not have barfed if I had dropped the http:// bit. I’ll just have to uninstall FFox to try as there seems to be no way of resetting a typed-in about:config.

                September 18, 2017 at 8:07 pm #11828
                Bob WilliamsBob Williams
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                  Dave I have that same problem with http and https – how do you turn it off please? Irritates me. I also am in the middle of trying to get Youtube playing in FF: just suddenly stopped playing.

                  “Irritating Net Nannies” is a fitting description, Ed.

                  When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
                  I'm out.

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