huge firefox

vicious · 2004-11-30 18:34:28

I was wondering why current mozilla-firefox is twice as big as the official mozilla.org build?

sarah31 · 2004-11-30 18:51:52

are you sure? did you check on the size after uncompressing? other than that perhaps it is extra junk people wanted added on that adds to the size.

i3839 · 2004-11-30 18:53:24

Could go to about:buildconfig and check if everything is ok.

vicious · 2004-11-30 20:29:50

# ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mozilla-firefox-1.0-1.pkg.tar.gz 

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12061235 2004-11-30 19:30 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mozilla-firefox-1.0-1.pkg.tar.gz

From mozilla.org:

Free Download
for Linux i686, English (8.2MB)

Not twice as big, but 50% bigger. Why?

sarah31 · 2004-11-30 21:33:27

like i said check the UNCOMPRESSED size. other than that you will have email the package maintainer because only he will be able to give you reasons why.

phrakture · 2004-12-01 16:28:50

it's possible the official installer downloads some stuff... compare only the binaries after decompression, as sarah said

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