Firefox 4 for f14?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 24 18:31:28 UTC 2011


drago01 wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just
>>> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to
>>> 'uninstall'. :)
>>
>> Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the binary? Wow,
>> very un-unixy! ;-)
> 
> They didn't do that ...

So it's not one big file… Scattered resource files are exactly what's most 
likely to stick around as garbage after uninstalling or upgrading in the 
absence of package management.

        Kevin Kofler



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