The title says it all. While changing my PFF context menu in firefox\chrome\browser.jar I noticed the JAR wasn't compressed. It dropped from 1.101KB to 337KB after zipping.
So is there a disadvantage to compressing them all?
BTW I store PortableFirefox on a HDD-based MP-3Player. Does this count as "IPod or MP3-Player" 
or as "Portable Harddrive" in my Account-settings?
You are here
JARs not compressed in PFF?
December 11, 2005 - 6:02pm
#1
JARs not compressed in PFF?
Please Help Support Us
Please help support us by making a donation so we can keep bringing you awesome free software. We accept credit card, wire transfer, PayPal, cryptocurrency, and more.
If you recently donated, thank you!
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on BlueSky
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on Twitter
JAR, EXE and DLL compression was dropped from the 1.5 release. The reason is the updater. The built-in 1.5 updater can apply binary patches. So, rather than downloading a new 1.5.1 when a security issue is addressed, Firefox automatically applies a small patch and keeps on going. By dropping compression, we grow 8MB size-wise, but gain the ability to do auto-update, keeping everyone nice and secure.
As for what to chose: Chose MP3
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Ah okay, neato. I'll just store the files back in the JAR then.
Thanks for the great work you're doing with the portable apps.
And a nice site you got here... I take it it's drupal powered?
You really gave me an idea when I first discovered PFF and I look out for portability wherever I download now.
If we zip the files FF will work slower. So I think un-ziping them will be much better
I use P3-600 64mb ram. I really feel the un-ziping time 
---
Shaman
Hear hear!
JH -- you rock!
~nm35