Full-text blog feedBinary Patching Now Working in Firefox
Ye-haa! The Software Update in Firefox now features great, wonderful, slick binary patching. You can update from one version to another by just downloading a few hundred kB or so. Just check this screenshot sequence:
This, together with the setting to download and install updates automatically, makes it possible for me (and these other guys) to install Firefox for friends and other acquaintances without having to follow up with update installations.
3 Comment(s):
At 12:44 AM,
xeen said…
yay, this is great, I tried it, too. It'll jsut work and you don't have to redownload all 4.7 megs (on win, it's even more of linux/osx) just for a tiny security update that probably changes 10kb somewhere, wee!
It's also going to reduce the load on the mozilla servers since it's much easier to ship 400 kb to the customers than shipping another version.
xeen
At 10:39 AM,
David Naylor said…
Yeah, I guess this is one of those win/win situations :-)
At 10:01 PM,
David Naylor said…
xeen, btw: You're website's design is cool as ice, man! (Three cheers for PNG support in IE7!)
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