Firefox 3.0.10 released

Posted Apr 28, 2009 17:06 UTC (Tue) by pranith (subscriber, #53092)
Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released

Wht doesn't mozilla have a bindiff utility which just patches the firefox binary? Why do I have to download 10 MB of data each and every time a developer sneezes and finds a new vulnerability?? It takes a lot of effort to download and install these updates in a corporate network, no matter how automated the process has been made.

Big downloads

Posted Apr 28, 2009 17:10 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Mechanisms like yum-presto are your friend in situations like this.

Except, of course, that Fedora has to release several dozen security updates every time Firefox changes, so the advantages of deltarpms are kind of overwhelmed in this case...

Firefox 3.0.10 released

Posted Apr 28, 2009 19:26 UTC (Tue) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link] (5 responses)

> 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.

Firefox 3.0.10 released

Posted Apr 28, 2009 20:56 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

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] (1 responses)

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
that they're stuck on narrowband...

Firefox 3.0.10 released

Posted Apr 29, 2009 6:35 UTC (Wed) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link] (1 responses)

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.

Firefox 3.0.10 released

Posted Apr 29, 2009 11:05 UTC (Wed) by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238) [Link]

Looks like they do it now. The recent upgrade from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10 was about 1MB on my job pc running XP, updates of the linux binaries through the various distributions tools are another story.