SillyDog701

[Fulvio]

James, you make good points, but as far as I remember a new version of Netscape4.x meant a completely new download. The word "patch" is alien to me, in the Netscape/Mozilla/etc. lingo. Although, it is quite true that extentions are a risk, at the very best. Some extentions could not be install as .jar files, or, ar least were not listed as available. Other extentions may conflict with new part of the program, while others don't, and a few others had already updates (e.g:User Switcher), obviously to make them compatible. I have four extentions in 1.02, now, and I intend to get one or may be two more. I don't need the Active X extention, as my favorite radio station stream beautifully without it (there is actually access to the .dll file), and Spoofstick may have become expendable. Not sure about it.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[beanboy89]

In the past few days, I had been wondering, and waiting for a zipped Win32 version of the Firefox 1.0.2 release candidate build. I had always used the zipped versions for nightly and testing Firefox builds; then used the installer for the final versions. I find the zipped versions are very simple to set up, I don't have to deal with an installer/uninstaller messing things up, and if I don't want the build, I'll just delete the folder to where I unzipped.

Today, I found my anwser to why there hadn't been a zipped Firefox 1.0.2 build in Asa's blog.

My question:

But, I have one question with the Firefox 1.0.2 candidate build...
Has the Mozilla Foundation discontinued the zipped Windows builds of Firefox? I can't seem to see any zipped Windows build of the Firefox 1.0.2 candidates. The latest Win32 zipped version, according to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... iary1.0.1/ was on March 14. The reasion I ask this, is because I find using the Firefox zipped builds much easier than dealing with the installer. Will there be any Win32 zipped build soon, or is one planned for the final 1.0.2 release?

Asa's responce:

Billy, yes, we're no longer shipping zipped builds for releases.

If this holds true, I'll find this a major disappointment, to me, and likely the same for others who make use of the Firefox zipped builds.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

[Andrew T.]

Asa's responce:

Billy, yes, we're no longer shipping zipped builds for releases.

If this holds true, I'll find this a major disappointment, to me, and likely the same for others who make use of the Firefox zipped builds.

Even though I usually use installer-based Windows builds myself, this is a disappointment. Now, I won't have an alternative to turn to if the installer of a future Firefox build does not work properly.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2