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How much R&D do you think Firefox squandered on making a custom installer generator for every download and being unable to cache the files on a cheap CDN?
by gjsman-1000 5y ago
How much R&D do you think Firefox squandered on making a custom installer generator for every download and being unable to cache the files on a cheap CDN?
- oh_sigh 5y agoNot much? I did exactly this when I worked on a really popular P2P file sharing client (at one point estimated to be installed on >15% of all PCs worldwide). It even improved our actual installs, but that is probably about just using an ultralight weight installer rather than having a tracking ID integrated into it. It literally took me a week. Granted, things were really fast and loose back then. It would probably take me 2 years and a team of engineers to do a similar thing at my current FANG job.