Modification of Firefox packaging

[Caramel]

in some time, Firefox will use tar.xz packaging instead of tar.bz2 packaging :
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/1 ... packaging/

I don't think it is absolutely necessary to modify ff-dl-latest at that time
because the Firefox tarball is renamed firefox.tar.bz2 in the script and the unpack command is the same for tar.xz and tar.bz2

[Stogie]

I use xz for just about everything, for example .tar.xz archive files.

If you have some extra time, try running xz with the -9 and -e options, which basically means "compress as hard as you possibly can". Very impressive results, far better than gz and better than bz2 also.

[mikewalsh]

I use xz for just about everything, for example .tar.xz archive files.

If you have some extra time, try running xz with the -9 and -e options, which basically means "compress as hard as you possibly can". Very impressive results, far better than gz and better than bz2 also.

@Stogie :-

You might be interested in UPX. Take a look here:-

https://upx.github.io/

(This isn't a general compressor, as such. It's designed to work primarily with executables.....but nevertheless, it's a handy utility to have in the toolbox.)

Mike.

[greengeek]

I thought that there were current concerns about security of xz compression? Will try to find the link.
Edit:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Maybe its already patched.