Answer by Nils for Browser with its own hosts file?
If a full VM is too much, a container-based solution might do. If we are talking about linux here, lxc might be a feasible solution. Apart from that - even a full VM with a minimal X11-linux is not...
View ArticleAnswer by Pete for Browser with its own hosts file?
One relatively simple solution (but maybe a bit resource heavy) would be to have a few virtual machines running in your host. Each virtual machine having it's own host file. So you would have one...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Kremser for Browser with its own hosts file?
Don't know if this is convenient enough for you, but one possible solution would be to install IIS on the machine with the browsers and provide server side scripts (like ASP.net, PHP, Ruby...) that...
View ArticleAnswer by totti for Browser with its own hosts file?
You can automate the process of changing host file with firefox + HostAdmin HostAdmin is a Firefox Addon , that helps you modify the Hosts file , switch domain-ip mapping. HostAdmin can understand your...
View ArticleAnswer by harrymc for Browser with its own hosts file?
I believe that you are asking to setup a virtual environment for each browser that includes its own hosts file. One solution might be to use Sandboxie to set up a separate sandbox, each containing its...
View ArticleAnswer by Dave Parrish for Browser with its own hosts file?
Squid solved the problem for me. I think many proxy servers could do the same. Specifically, I had to install Squid. Then change the squid.conf so that it accessed an alternate hosts file. This is the...
View ArticleAnswer by Tamara Wijsman for Browser with its own hosts file?
Privoxy can be used for this purpose.
View ArticleAnswer by Chris Harrod for Browser with its own hosts file?
I know this isn't what you're asking for, but a temporary solution could be to write a batch script to swap the hosts files and then claunch the browser. At least it would minimize the the work you're...
View ArticleBrowser with its own hosts file?
I have a number of staging and test servers that I need to constantly modify my hosts file to access (they depend on the domain name, so I have to change the hosts file to get them to work). I find...
View ArticleAnswer by Noel Swanson for Browser with its own hosts file?
Unfortunately the OP can't use Firefox. For those people who can, this is a partial solution:On both Chrome and Firefox there is an extension call LiveHosts which lets you map a domain to an IP just in...
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