Netscape Navigator has the same issue!
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love Firefox when it works, but half the time it can’t access any sites while Chrome does. It’s like Firefox can’t see the network.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
RalfWausE@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I think that depends heavily on the pages one might frequent.
Most of the time i comfortably get by using netsurf…
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Very rarely I face a website I can’t open on Firefox because it’s not compatible but half the time is surely a gross exaggeration
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t mean half the websites don’t work. I mean half the time Firefox won’t load ANYTHING. It basically stops working with any DNS for a few hours at a time.
wewbull@feddit.uk 8 months ago
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.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 months ago
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
Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 months ago
I have had this issue a few times and find that usually there is some weird update or something behind the scenes and a reboot of Firefox lets it start loading again. I’m not techy enough to know why but I have found that closing all tabs is mandatory maintenance for Firefox every so often.