Re:Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
by mehrdadn on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:48PM
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Do you know what the reason for this distinction is? On Windows, it seems kernel-mode APIs seem to stay quite stable as well... there are exceptions mostly on the device driver side because hardware tends to evolve (e.g. display/graphics drivers), but generic drivers (= kernel modules) generally seem to be able to rely on backwards-compatibility too.
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Re:Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:47PM
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My understanding is that it's to intentionally discourage trying to keep things out of tree, where they will inevitably break in worse ways. It also makes the GPL enthusiasts happy, but I doubt that was Linus's big goal.
Re:Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
by mehrdadn on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:52PM
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I see, thanks. I'd be curious as to why he feels it would "inevitably break in worse ways", seeing as how that's not really the case on other platforms.
Re:Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:25PM
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Basically, if you're going to have drivers out of tree, the driver ABI has to be perfectly stable, which restricts internal refactoring. Otherwise things break - and this does happen elsewhere; lots of drivers for Windows XP don't work on 10.