Talk:Firefox
From WPKG | Open Source Software Deployment and Distribution
Don't you think it's time to clean a little this article - it's getting messy here.
- Hmm, yeah, why not - what do you propose to change? Or just change it.
- Well, we could move extensions installation to a new single thread and live just FF v1/2/3 packages. Or even get rid of FF2, because everyone who'd like to install v2 should use v3, and if someone has an old computer might have want to use v1.5 (but I haven't checked does FF 1.5 works better than FF 2 or FF 3 on old machines)
- What about creating Firefox:Extensions page, and move the extensions there (both pages should link to each other)?
- Well, we could move extensions installation to a new single thread and live just FF v1/2/3 packages. Or even get rid of FF2, because everyone who'd like to install v2 should use v3, and if someone has an old computer might have want to use v1.5 (but I haven't checked does FF 1.5 works better than FF 2 or FF 3 on old machines)
- Hmm, yeah, why not - what do you propose to change? Or just change it.
Exactly!
- So do it! ;)
Check for file version
Why are you having it check for the existence of the uninstaller? Checking firefox.exe's version would be more convenient. Obviously, firefox.exe's version number does not represent the Firefox version (e.g. 3.0.4), but the Gecko version (e.g. 1.9.0.3224). So instead of
<check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Mozilla Firefox (3.0.4)" />
we could have
<check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" value="1.9.0.3224"/>
Here are the Gecko versions of some other releases: 2.0.0.17 1.8.20080.17373 2.0.0.18 1.8.20081.2918 3.0.4 1.9.0.3224 3.1b1 1.9.1.3202