Instead of the installer, download the zip files (*.tar.gz for linux,
*.zip for windows). unzip them into the same directory each time and
you'll notice that you won't have to install plugins/themes everytime.
Pratik.
Peter Lairo wrote:
> Hey Asa,
>
> my question is important too (whine whine):
>
> .... is there a way to easily install the latest nightlies and not have
> to redownload/install JAVA, Themes, PSM and Plugins?
>
> I have tried to just copy the latest nightly files right over the
> installed build and it SEEMS to work.
>
> Is there anything i should be aware of? Is there a better way (e.g. make
> backups of \chrome, \plugins, etc dirs and then delete old nightly, copy
> new nightly, then copy \chrome etc from backup)??
>
>
> Asa Dotzler wrote:
>
>> Ian Tindale wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed an animated gorilla or monkey in my downloads of the
>>> nightlies - don't tell me I'm wasting download time on that every
>>> time I get a nightly (often a week). Where does that gorilla actually
>>> show up?
>>>
>>> Ian Tindale
>>
>>
>>
>> If you're downlading the win32.zip or win32-talkback.zip builds for
>> win32 then you are getting a bunch of test files which developers and
>> QA use to test stuff in the app. If you download the Installer.exe
>> you won't get all these testing files.
>>
>> -Asa
