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Firefox 3.0.10 releasedFirefox 3.0.10 releasedPosted Apr 28, 2009 19:26 UTC (Tue) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)In reply to: Firefox 3.0.10 released by pranith Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released
> Wht doesn't mozilla have a bindiff utility which just patches the firefox binary?
It already does. That feature was added in Firefox 1.5. Updates to Firefox are very small.
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Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 28, 2009 20:56 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
My parents have to download them over a 28k8 modem. Small is in the eye of
the beholder :( it often takes twenty minutes or more and sometimes eats an hour. A costly hour.
Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 29, 2009 19:22 UTC (Wed) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link]
As I mentioned in another post in this thread, the update from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10 was 1.5 MB for Windows and 199 KB for Linux. For a 28kbps modem that would be about 8 minutes for the former and one and a half minutes for the latter. If it's taking an hour for your parents to download, they're either downloading the full release and not the update or something is wrong with your their connection.
Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 29, 2009 20:13 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Oh, I'd be quite willing to believe that something was wrong (probably
something else saturating the line, but Windows being Windows it can be hard to tell what: probably a billion contending worms or something like that).
It *is* much better now than it was in the FF1 days. The real problem is
Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 29, 2009 6:35 UTC (Wed) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link]
small? ~10 MB is small? I dont see patches of size < 1 MB. That I think is small
Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 29, 2009 19:19 UTC (Wed) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link]
> small? ~10 MB is small?
No, 1.5 MB is small. That's the size of the update file from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10 on Windows. For Linux it's even smaller, only 199 KB. That even meets your definition of small. If you're downloading 10 MB of data for a Firefox update, you're likely downloading the full installer rather than the update. I'm not sure why it would do that.
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