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We do gather symbol information on Windows too, but it's a lot less detailed than what we get from Linux. It also requires jumping through a lot of hoops. For example we get minimal information from Windows graphics drivers and we have to semi-manually scrape them ourselves.

To get symbols for basically any MS library I just add the official MS symbol server to my symbol search list. Chrome has one too, there's no real reason other vendors couldn't do it. You can also just ship a .pdb file next to your binaries, and I think the only good reasons for not doing that are keeping download sizes small (use a symbol server...) or paranoid secrecy.

For example, NVIDIA's windows drivers are like 600mb at this point yet they don't even include function name symbols. It's inexcusable.

Has Windows ever broken Firefox? Do you think it's more or less likely to happen in Windows (or Mac) or Linux?