Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2016 01:48:24 UTC+2 schrieb Robert Strong: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 22:41:01 UTC+2 schrieb Benjamin Smedberg: > > > We have considered this, but in the grand rollout plans for 64-bit > > Firefox > > > it's low on the list. We're still dealing with Flash > > sandboxing/functional > > > regressions as a blocker for wider rollout, and the next step is probably > > > to progressively roll out win64 to new users before we consider anything > > > for existing users. > > > > > > This will be much easier now that we have widevine and are dropping > > > npapi/silverlight, but addon compat is also a concern and we wanted to > > > partly wait for webextensions before pushing more on this. > > > > > > --BDS > > > > Sounds like a plan for me! > > Maybe there can be a ship of a installer that include 32bit & 64bit? > > Or at least have one web-installer for both versions? > > Also giving the user the change to make a easy upgrade from 32bit to 64bit > > with the offline-installer would be nice and a good test-drive for a future > > auto-update... > > > The installer does not equal auto-update. Two separate things entirely. > Download size for a combined installer is not something we want to do to > people on slow network connection but the auto selection via the stub > installer is planned though no completion date yet due to other work having > priority.
The idea was to test the upgrade from 32bit to 64bit first with the offline installer because it should effect less people and would be maybe a good test for all the routines/logic behind it like e.g. uninstall something, moving files, or something like this... If not to much work, I would prefer to have one 32bit/64bit-installer for people who don't know the difference... (as default download.) Single Just-32bit/64bit-installer can persist for people who know for what they have to looking for... (AFAICR other project did/do the same.) (At least with just-English and multi-lang installers...) As I didn't knew how Mozilla will handle the switch... if - like by IE - there will be 32bit/64bit parallel, or like Chrome do it, just one version... I installed from each channel both version on my system and created a bunch of icons for it, because the version overwrite ATM the icons from each other... I guess that a lot of people have the almost same scenario (both versions), but by mistake and don't realize it! So a routine (first in offline installer) in the 64bit version that check if a (old) 32bit version exist too on the system and when, then de-install it while install/update the 64bit version would be (IMHO) nice. (Can test this and make QA.) Also I would like to see a error msg in future (or at least a big warning) if a user try to use the 32bit installer on a 64bit system. AFAIK there is also no MozillaMaintenanceService as 64bit now... ...and the MozillaMaintenanceService should also block to install a 32bit version on a 64bit Win (even normally no-one use this installer manual) and uninstall 32bit if 64bit gets installed or updated. A long open wish from me (and I guess others, too) would be to see in future a multi-lang web-installer. Should also make things easier... _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
