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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.

Comments

um now where is lucidia and my forum

Monday December 08, 2003 @ 08:11 PM (PST) Posted by asdf
and i get a error:

http://daband.org/wonko.error.gif
Monday December 08, 2003 @ 08:12 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

and no i dont want to install nsci

Monday December 08, 2003 @ 08:15 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

and no i dont need to

Monday December 08, 2003 @ 08:16 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

and yes i want you to fix this.

Monday December 08, 2003 @ 08:16 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Monday December 08, 2003 @ 09:54 PM (PST) Posted by Ryan Grove

Did rawb forget his password or something?

Tuesday December 09, 2003 @ 08:19 AM (PST) Posted by Eilonwy

yes

Tuesday December 09, 2003 @ 05:09 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Tuesday December 09, 2003 @ 05:10 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Tuesday December 09, 2003 @ 05:37 PM (PST) Posted by GreyStork

stay on topic please.. dont be a troll

Tuesday December 09, 2003 @ 07:31 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 11:42 AM (PST) Posted by Indigo2
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
Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 11:52 AM (PST) Posted by Indigo2
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.
Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 12:47 PM (PST) Posted by Ryan Grove

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

Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 01:21 PM (PST) Posted by Indigo2
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.
Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 01:41 PM (PST) Posted by Ryan Grove

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

Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 01:57 PM (PST) Posted by Indigo2
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
Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 02:01 PM (PST) Posted by Indigo2
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
Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 02:19 PM (PST) Posted by Indigo2

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

Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 03:56 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Wednesday December 10, 2003 @ 03:59 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

he-he. now rwb is funny.

Thursday December 11, 2003 @ 02:47 AM (PST) Posted by davedub

ty

Thursday December 11, 2003 @ 04:09 AM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Thursday December 11, 2003 @ 11:47 AM (PST) Posted by Indigo2
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.

Thursday December 11, 2003 @ 12:13 PM (PST) Posted by Ryan Grove

lucidia?

Thursday December 11, 2003 @ 01:55 PM (PST) Posted by asdf

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

Thursday December 11, 2003 @ 02:52 PM (PST) Posted by Indigo2

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.

Friday December 12, 2003 @ 09:43 PM (PST) Posted by blackphiber

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.

Friday December 12, 2003 @ 11:02 PM (PST) Posted by Ryan Grove

All right, thanks!

Saturday December 13, 2003 @ 03:42 PM (PST) Posted by blackphiber

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

Saturday December 13, 2003 @ 03:53 PM (PST) Posted by blackphiber

datingandrating.com and greatnudity.com were sites I build after I got my software engineer

Saturday December 13, 2003 @ 07:40 PM (PST) Posted by ngatcha
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