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Mozilla has progressed in its effort to thwart network snoopers by encrypting connections to the web servers that host websites, using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), the combination of the network technology, DNS and HTTPS, to prevent middlemen from figuring out the internet servers.

While the support for DoH was added to Firefox 62 as a way to improve the way the browser interacts with DNS, employing encrypted networking to obtain DNS information from the server that is configured within Firefox, but it does not use DoH by default, as users are required to go through the configuration editor to enable it.

Now, the company has announced plans to enable support for the DNS-over-HTTPS protocol by default within the Firefox browser, starting with US users this month.

Mozilla had been testing the DoH support in Firefox way back since 2017, and so far, no issues have been recorded with the new protocol. So, it now plans to enable DoH in the main Firefox browser release for a small percentage of its users, and subsequently enable it for all Firefox users.

What this means is that Firefox will ignore the DNS settings setup in the operating system, and instead, use the browser-side DoH resolver. And the encryption of the DNS traffic will effectively hide DNS information from ISPs and traffic filters, or even , enterprise firewalls and any other third-party that wants to intercept a user's traffic.

Albeit, DNS-over-HTTPS has not been welcomed by enterprise environments, governments and ISPs, as DoH could allow just anyone, including privacy advocates to bypass traffic filters set in place by rogue governments to track the citizens.

Mozilla's implementation of DoH, however would help to seal off major holes, regarding privacy and security, though there will be some technical challenges, but gradually things will surely improve.

Mozilla will now enable Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) by default



Mozilla has progressed in its effort to thwart network snoopers by encrypting connections to the web servers that host websites, using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), the combination of the network technology, DNS and HTTPS, to prevent middlemen from figuring out the internet servers.

While the support for DoH was added to Firefox 62 as a way to improve the way the browser interacts with DNS, employing encrypted networking to obtain DNS information from the server that is configured within Firefox, but it does not use DoH by default, as users are required to go through the configuration editor to enable it.

Now, the company has announced plans to enable support for the DNS-over-HTTPS protocol by default within the Firefox browser, starting with US users this month.

Mozilla had been testing the DoH support in Firefox way back since 2017, and so far, no issues have been recorded with the new protocol. So, it now plans to enable DoH in the main Firefox browser release for a small percentage of its users, and subsequently enable it for all Firefox users.

What this means is that Firefox will ignore the DNS settings setup in the operating system, and instead, use the browser-side DoH resolver. And the encryption of the DNS traffic will effectively hide DNS information from ISPs and traffic filters, or even , enterprise firewalls and any other third-party that wants to intercept a user's traffic.

Albeit, DNS-over-HTTPS has not been welcomed by enterprise environments, governments and ISPs, as DoH could allow just anyone, including privacy advocates to bypass traffic filters set in place by rogue governments to track the citizens.

Mozilla's implementation of DoH, however would help to seal off major holes, regarding privacy and security, though there will be some technical challenges, but gradually things will surely improve.
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