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Re:Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains by mehrdadn on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:52PM (#15966346)
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.
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Re:Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:25PM (#15972847)
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.
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