Firefox defaults to not proxying DNS, but if you set "network.proxy.socks_remote...

		tomku on Oct 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness Firefox defaults to not proxying DNS, but if you set "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true in about:config, it will happily do so for SOCKS proxies. If you use FoxyProxy (which is pretty damn useful if you proxy over an SSH tunnel regularly), it has a checkbox that enables or disables it per-proxy.