Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-06-18 Thread Olaf Leidinger
Hello! > Oh yes, as newest GenuineCheck.exe crashes, newest > WGAPluginInstall.exe may fail also. For this > reason I've put online older versions of both: [2] > > > [1] > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7b9ba261-7a9c-43e7-9117-f673077ffb3c&DisplayLang=en > [2] http:

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-06-09 Thread Dan Kegel
On 6/9/06, Saulius Krasuckas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, Dan, would you be so kind as to check Firefox for ablility to validate Wine installation as Genuine Windows? Still fails with wine-0.9.15: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ ~/wine/wine WGAPluginInstall.exe fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\w

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-06-09 Thread Saulius Krasuckas
* On Wed, 3 May 2006, Dan Kegel wrote: > Windows Firefox just happily updated itself under Wine to > 1.5.0.3. Nice that an uncommon code path worked fine. And how it does with 1.5.0.4 update? > Firefox is solid for my uses lately. BTW, Dan, would you be so kind as to check Firefox for ablili

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/3/06, Segin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firefox in Wine is faster than IE on Windows. Depends on the benchmark, I think. I'm using "Time to first download and render http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/thread.html " and Firefox on Wine does much worse on this than Firef

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Mike Hearn
On 5/3/06, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Its more of feature bloatedness and codesize vs small (but full necessary) featureset and clean programming ;) Yeah, maybe. I can't really compare. I have passing familiarty with Gecko and they're cleaning it up a lot, but it's still very ve

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:05:59PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On 5/3/06, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Number of konqueror affecting security problems in the last 2 years > >(by CVE entry): ca 10. > >Number of firefox security problems in the last 2 years > >(by CVE entry): ca 100.

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Mike Hearn
On 5/3/06, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Number of konqueror affecting security problems in the last 2 years (by CVE entry): ca 10. Number of firefox security problems in the last 2 years (by CVE entry): ca 100. (Just go to http://cve.mitre.org/cve/ and look for yourself.) I wonde

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Segin
Dimi Paun wrote: On Wed, May 3, 2006 12:00 pm, Dan Kegel said: Windows Firefox just happily updated itself under Wine to 1.5.0.3. Nice that an uncommon code path worked fine. Indeed. Funny you mention it, it just updated here too. It worked fine on Windows as well :))) Firefox is solid f

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:42:56PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 03 May 2006 14:37:55 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > > It may be, I haven't used Konqy in many years (5+). > > Nonetheless, FF is the main non-IE browser, I'm happy > > is now fast for doing this, it's sad it took so long > > to get th

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 03 May 2006 14:37:55 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > It may be, I haven't used Konqy in many years (5+). > Nonetheless, FF is the main non-IE browser, I'm happy > is now fast for doing this, it's sad it took so long > to get there. True, but on the other hand the engineering required to make thi

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dimi Paun
On Wed, May 3, 2006 2:30 pm, Neil Skrypuch said: > Including Konqueror? On my machine at least, the initial render in > Konqueror is quite a bit faster than Firefox 1.5. Cached pages are > both pretty much instantaneous. It may be, I haven't used Konqy in many years (5+). Nonetheless, FF is the m

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Neil Skrypuch
On Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:23, Dimi Paun wrote: > > Firefox is solid for my uses lately. Performance could > > use some work (reading the wine-devel archive index > > gets annoying towards the end of the month when it's > > long, as firefox takes a long time to fetch it (?)). > > Hm, AFAIK 1.5

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/3/06, Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's when the cache is stale and new data is downloading > that it's particularly painful. This is often. But is it any faster on Windows in such cases? Yes, I think it's about 2x or 3x faster. It certainly is on Linux (without wine). - Dan

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dimi Paun
On Wed, May 3, 2006 12:45 pm, Dan Kegel said: > It's when the cache is stale and new data is downloading > that it's particularly painful. This is often. But is it any faster on Windows in such cases? -- Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lattica, Inc.

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/3/06, Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox is solid for my uses lately. Performance could > use some work (reading the wine-devel archive index > gets annoying towards the end of the month when it's > long, as firefox takes a long time to fetch it (?)). Hm, AFAIK 1.5 should cache

Re: Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dimi Paun
On Wed, May 3, 2006 12:00 pm, Dan Kegel said: > Windows Firefox just happily updated itself under Wine to > 1.5.0.3. Nice that an uncommon code path worked fine. Indeed. Funny you mention it, it just updated here too. It worked fine on Windows as well :))) > Firefox is solid for my uses lately.

Dogfood report: Firefox autoupdate works

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
Windows Firefox just happily updated itself under Wine to 1.5.0.3. Nice that an uncommon code path worked fine. Firefox is solid for my uses lately. Performance could use some work (reading the wine-devel archive index gets annoying towards the end of the month when it's long, as firefox takes