> I don't understand. How does Firefox on desktop "break" access to some websites?
When I checked, I think there were DNS resolution failures for some domains. This was regardless of whether PIA DNS or the existing DNS servers were used. It was also regardless of whether OpenVPN or WireGuard were used, or which VPN server was used - the only pre-requisite was that the VPN be active and Firefox be used on a MacBook in particular.
It was very odd and hasn't ever happened on Windows/Linux with Firefox either, nor did happen on the MacBook with Brave afterwards either. I didn't care enough to dig into it, but some people had similar issues:
It seems that the suggested "fix" that worked for the other person is to disable IPv6 altogether:
> This is a bug in Firefox, you can fix it by opening about:config in Firefox and set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true
Not like it makes me like Firefox any less, it's just odd that we get super random issues like that for relatively basic use cases (albeit maybe various VPN implementations aren't necessarily that common, who knows). Would be nice to live in a world where everything "just works", though.
When I checked, I think there were DNS resolution failures for some domains. This was regardless of whether PIA DNS or the existing DNS servers were used. It was also regardless of whether OpenVPN or WireGuard were used, or which VPN server was used - the only pre-requisite was that the VPN be active and Firefox be used on a MacBook in particular.
It was very odd and hasn't ever happened on Windows/Linux with Firefox either, nor did happen on the MacBook with Brave afterwards either. I didn't care enough to dig into it, but some people had similar issues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/18nh...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/14yl...
It seems that the suggested "fix" that worked for the other person is to disable IPv6 altogether:
> This is a bug in Firefox, you can fix it by opening about:config in Firefox and set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true
Not like it makes me like Firefox any less, it's just odd that we get super random issues like that for relatively basic use cases (albeit maybe various VPN implementations aren't necessarily that common, who knows). Would be nice to live in a world where everything "just works", though.