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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoDNS is an operating system level service. Your computer is screwed, not the browser. Chrome might be fixing it up by using Google DNS behind your back.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoFirefox uses its own internal cert database which could create a similar effect. Firefox supports DNS over HTTPs or a similar protocol that escapes my memory at the moment which could very well mess with its ability to handle DNS
DNS is an operating system level service. Your computer is screwed, not the browser.
Chrome might be fixing it up by using Google DNS behind your back.
Firefox uses its own internal cert database which could create a similar effect.
Firefox supports DNS over HTTPs or a similar protocol that escapes my memory at the moment which could very well mess with its ability to handle DNS