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Why was support for TCP Fast Open removed in Firefox 87 ? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by jayaura@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I found that TCP Fast Open was removed in Firefox, while Chrome continues to have it. Does anyone have more info on why the devs decided to axe it ?

The ticket that removed the feature didn't have any explanation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689604

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[–] davidjennes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apparently because of compatibility issues. Found this via the Wikipedia page about this feature.

[–] BitPirate@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Protocol ossification is a huge problem. That's one of the reasons why the IETF went with the UDP based QUIC for HTTP/3.

[–] max@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting read, thanks for sharing!

[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

See here. Compatibility issues.