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by dmytrish 4010 days ago
Android mobile browser requires the full signature chain of authorities who signed the site certificate[0]. It is done to avoid calls to CA servers and reduce network use on mobile devices.

If a person does not concatenate authorities signatures to their site certificate, Firefox and mobile Chrome will alert, desktop Chrome and Safari won't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling