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Yeah, every time I see that stat, it just sounds like a great argument for diff-updates: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer-too.html

• sid0 17y ago
  Firefox does do diff updates.
• kinetik 17y ago
  Firefox already uses bsdiff to generate binary diffs for update distribution. Courgette looks like a promising way to shrink those updates even further. (Details in the discussion linked from: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504624 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504624) I can't find a reference, but I think the "one billion" count only counts full downloads; updates installed via "Check for updates" aren't included in the count.