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Firefox 2.0 RC3 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @12:44AM from the good-morning-project dept.

midkay writes "Firefox 2.0 RC3 has just been released. The release notes cover all the changes since the first release candidate, but RC3 appears to have a new Windows installer and more security in the extensions aspect, among a few other things."

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Re:WHy a new installer for Windows? by Compholio · 2006-10-17 01:33 · Score: 3, Interesting

Why they went to the trouble of a new installer and don't create a msi installer for Windows I don't know.
Making proper MSI packages, at least with Microsoft's Orca tool, is a pain in the butt. Nullsoft installers are much easier to create and much easier to deploy as silent installations on large networks, unless of course the tool you're using doesn't support executables and only supports MSI packages.