MozUpdate 1.4.0

Monday December 08, 2003 @ 06:25 PM (PST)

I released MozUpdate 1.4.0 today. If you frequently install builds of any Mozilla application on a Windows machine, you should give it a look.

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um now where is lucidia and my forum

and i get a error:

http://daband.org/wonko.error.gif

and no i dont want to install nsci

and yes i want you to fix this.

Try downloading MozUpdate again. The error message suggests that your download didn't succeed.

Did rawb forget his password or something?

um not me i downloaded it fine its on your end please fix it and reupload thanks

The master of clutter and non-information strikes again...

stay on topic please.. dont be a troll

I'm getting the same error. Please fix ASAP. Thanks

I'm getting the same error --
http://daband.org/wonko.error.gif (I tried downloading it multiple times) but I think it's something wrong with the file that was uploaded.... Please fix ASAP, looks like a neat app to play with...

Thanks
What version of Windows are you running?

I've downloaded and tested MozUpdate on several different machines, each running Windows XP, and it works fine.

I'm using Windows XP Professional, but without SP1....

Strange. I just tried it on a pristine (i.e., completely bare, with nothing other than Windows installed) Windows 2000 machine I use for QA here at work, and it ran fine there too.

I really think your browser must have cached the corrupt download or something.

Very odd, I'll try different downloading tools to download it (ex. wget) and I'll let you know....

Yep, you were right. Instead of using Firebird to download, I tried FreshDownload and it worked great. Guess you were right :)

Thanks, sweet tool. One question though: Say I make it upgrade Firebird to a nightly build everynight for example, could I get it to transfer my plugins and such while it installs the new build, also, when it closes the Firebird windows it has open, could it bookmark all the tabs open in a folder with the date on it. (ex. a folder called 10/12/03)....

Thanks
Actually, the plugins are no issue since it doesn't do anything to them, i just tried it out. But, if it could do the bookmark deal, shut down the program if its running, install the latest build, start it again and open all the stuff it bookmarked in tabs, that'd be perfect. Let me know...

Cool tool, thanks again

alright, I'll try freshdownload and see if it fixes it..

ok it worked.. thanks. hows lucidia or whatever coming?

So wonko...Think its possible? Gimme ur thoughts on this...

Sorry, been a bit busy lately and forgot to respond. As you noticed, MozUpdate does preserve your plugins as of the latest release. I don't have any plans to have MozUpdate automatically close browser/mail windows before updating, though, because there currently is not a good way of doing it.

In NSIS, the only reliable way to detect whether an application is running is to determine whether or not that application's window is loaded. Unfortunately, all the Mozilla apps (this includes the App Suite, Firebird, and Thunderbird) use the same name (MozillaWindowClass) for their main application windows. This is why, even when you're just upgrading Thunderbird but you have a Firebird browser window running, MozUpdate will warn you that you should close Thunderbird before continuing.

MozUpdate can tell that you have a Mozilla application running, so it shows the warning just to be safe, but it can't tell for sure which Mozilla application is running. It would really suck if you were upgrading Thunderbird and MozUpdate "helpfully" closed all your Firebird windows for you.

However, I've been toying with some plans for command line options to allow MozUpdate to be run in a batch job or on a schedule, and I can see where a command line option to have MozUpdate automatically close the apps before upgrading them might work. Bookmarking all active tabs would be a little harder, but could probably be done by sending window messages to the browser window -- although again, we run into the problem of MozUpdate having no way of knowing which window is which.

I'll keep this stuff in mind though. Thanks.

Ahh, I see what you mean. Yeah, command line switches for scheduled runs is cool. Thanks for the info....

This sound like a great app. Any plans to make a version for Linux in the near future? Thanks, wish I was a software engineer too so I could help. ah oh well, keep up the good work.

A short shell script would do the trick in Linux, although it wouldn't be as pretty. But no, I don't have any plans to write one. Sorry.

Well thanks for telling me that can be done, I found http://getmoz.mozdev.org/ and it sounds like what I want/need

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