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SeanAndersonlast Friday at 11:13 PM1 replyview on HN

What does the age of your machine have to do with browser compatibility issues? Are you running a stale OS and a stale browser on that OS?


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exasperaitedlast Friday at 11:20 PM

Sooner or later, the age of your machine will affect browser compatibility.

It doesn't even take many things to do this — the knock-on support of a bug in a driver that no-one wants to fix, a package that you like that prevents you from upgrading your host OS, web browser developers abandoning something about your GUI (how long before they drop X?) etc.

In the Linux world, the age of your machine is a limit with a blurry edge, but it's still there.