Firsts stats for the XpCom
In the version 0.5, we implement a new system in FireGPG to have more options for calling GnuPG, an XpCom. There lots of reasons to do this, the most important is that we can send your password to GnuPG in the most secure way (don’t panic, the old system is secure too ;)).
But there are disadvantages too. An XpCom is made of C and must be complied. It’s mean it’s platform-dependent. If we create an XpCom on Windows, he won’t work on Gnu/Linux or MacOs.
In the 0.5 we build the XpCom for Windows and Linux (on x86 platforms) to see how it’s works on our users’ computers. We of course automatically use the old way if the XpCom has a problem, to let’s everybody using FireGPG as usual.
So after 8500 installations of the version 0.5 we have some interesting stats, with good and bad news.
On Windows, everything works. 99% (on 4266 tests, we can’t use the XpCom 4 times, and it’s seem it was only temporally) of FireGPG are able to call GnuPG with the XpCom. It’s mean some important things. First, we don’t need anymore hstart.exe who currently make us GPL-incompatible and was a reason to keep us in the sandbox of Mozilla’s website. We will probably remove it in the next release.
On Gnu/Linux it’s… strange. The XpCom doesn’t work for 40% of the users and we don’t know why (we only speaking about the x86 platform). We should find why, the problem is all of my linux installations are able to use it, I think I will use VmWare and try with different distribution to check if all works… Btw, you’re 2843 users on Linux, less than Windows, bouuuu ;)
On MacOs, it’s doesn’t work but as we haven’t an XpCom for MacOs it’s not amazing. As there is ~820 users we should try to build it ^^’
There are some exotic platforms too, like FreeBSD (11 pings), SunOS (6 pings), OpenBSD, OS2, DargonFly (?!?) where it’s doesn’t work and where it’s will probably never works ;).
We have to wait for the end of the update (in 4-5 days) as this stats are based on 50% of our users (estimation of course) and then we will begin to adapt the code (byebye hstart.exe °o°)
Comments
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I’m happy to say this is working fine for me on Ubuntu 8.04. —–BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE—– Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: https://getfiregpg.org
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UziMonkey, 2008-07-05 02:37:09
First, I want to say a big thank you for developing this! FireGPG is one of a very small handful of Firefox plugins that I always install!
I use it on both my home Kubuntu (amd64 & x86) PCs and my work (Win XP) PC. I don’t want to stop using it at work just to skew the numbers towards Linux, so I thought I’d just let you know that. I’m sure I’m not alone in this.
Looking forward to keep using this excellent plugin!
Cheers, Frode
Frode, 2008-07-05 02:38:13
I don’t know if you corrected something important, but now it works for me under MacOSX =)
Adrien, 2008-07-20 11:11:05