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One problem I seem to be having with FF (on Win 10 anyway) is it's not checking my hosts file for a domain lookup before using dns. Overriding the hosts file makes some things easier so I tend to do it. But now, my first time trying from Win, and it's not getting my page. Chrome works, ssh from WSL works, but FF uses dns first, apparently.

It's the first development usage I've found that Chrome works better than FF.



Yeah I had that problem too after they shipped encrypted dns. You can turn that off and it'll work normally.


OK thank you!


If you want to use DNS-over-HTTPS, you can add domain names to "network.trr.excluded-domains" in "about:config" (if, for example, you always use the .dev TLD for custom hostnames in your hosts file, you can simply exclude that domain name).

If not, well, just disable DNS-over-HTTPS entirely.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver for even more DoH-related settings you can tweak.


Thank you- that's very helpful!


Well, that just means Firefox is winning this war by, what, 79–1 rather than 80-0


Agree.


Are you using (or have been subjected to) Firefox enabling DNS over http? IIRC it's auto enabled for users in the US.




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