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It seems like a waste of bandwidth for it to have downloaded a 12MB (roughly) update just to change the version info. Are there any plans to implement a Chrome-
by omellet 16y ago
It seems like a waste of bandwidth for it to have downloaded a 12MB (roughly) update just to change the version info. Are there any plans to implement a Chrome-like binary diffing update system, now that Mozilla is moving to more frequent releases?
- cfinke 16y agoMozilla does have an incremental update system called MAR (Mozilla ARchive): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR
- mbrubeck 16y agoIf you are running RC2, you won't need to download any update, because there is no version info to change. All the version numbers in the release candidates just say "4.0". Mozilla already uses binary diffs for updates, and we already release security and stability updates about once a month.
- blinkingled 16y agoThanks for pointing that out - I was wondering about why I was seeing 4.0 since yesterday when it updated itself.