[thelist] Setting permissions so localhost can be used by Firefox

[Mark Rees]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Olson" <joshua at waetech.com>
To: "'Michele Foster'" <foster.michele at gmail.com>; <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 2:22 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Setting permissions so localhost can be used by
Firefox


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michele Foster
> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 8:27 AM
> >
> > Can someone remind me how to set up the permissions to allow
> > Firefox (and others) to access my localhost? IE is working fine. It
> > is not the hosts file, as 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> localhost,
> > already exists there.
>
> >  This is for WinXP Professional.
>

Is this anything to do with the proxy settings, perhaps (assuming you are
using a proxy)?

Tools->Options->Connection Settings
Manual proxy configuration

Fill in localhost and 127.0.0.1 under "No proxy for:"