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by Karunamon 4450 days ago
In my experience, enabling it causes strange behavior with some plugins and even Chrome itself at some times. If the CRL check fails, related secure connections will fail with no notification.

This led to a bit of problem with a proxy server at work. A filter update blocked the CRL link, and suddenly nobody in my office could sign into their Chrome browsers. You'd hit "log in", it would appear to work, but nothing happens. An error saying that CRL checks were at fault would have saved a great deal of time....

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Interesting; thank you for the warning -This explains some of the oddness I've been having this morning after enabling it last night.

I went an checked firefox too which does check CRLs as default but doesn't silently fail if it can't check them (it's a separate tickbox)