Fun fact: in Firefox, we take some liberties with the ZIP format to give us a performance boost when loading our JAR files. But this broke the ability to open the JAR with some ZIP utilities, so...
Fun fact: in Firefox, we take some liberties with the ZIP format to give us a performance boost when loading our JAR files. But this broke the ability to open the JAR with some ZIP utilities, so we renamed the extension of our jar files to ja so that people wouldn't file bugs about it anymore.
Fascinating, I love content like this. I remember a couple years back, I had an old 32 bit Pentium D machine, and I was trying to unzip a compressed copy of my backup folder. Only problem is, the...
Fascinating, I love content like this. I remember a couple years back, I had an old 32 bit Pentium D machine, and I was trying to unzip a compressed copy of my backup folder. Only problem is, the 32 bit version of FreeBSD's unzip utility couldn't handle the 8 or 9GB file because it was too large! In the end, I believe I actually had to use OpenJDK's native unzipping utilities to decompress my files, and that worked fine. That was a memory I'd almost forgotten about, I haven't run into that problem in years. Thanks for the post OP! :)
Offtopic but obligatory: https://archive.org/donate/ IMO Internet Archive is one of the most important resources on the web and something we really shouldn't take for granted, so need to...
IMO Internet Archive is one of the most important resources on the web and something we really shouldn't take for granted, so need to consistently make efforts to ensure stays well funded.
Fun fact: in Firefox, we take some liberties with the ZIP format to give us a performance boost when loading our JAR files. But this broke the ability to open the JAR with some ZIP utilities, so we renamed the extension of our
jarfiles tojaso that people wouldn't file bugs about it anymore.the more you know 🤯
Fascinating, I love content like this. I remember a couple years back, I had an old 32 bit Pentium D machine, and I was trying to unzip a compressed copy of my backup folder. Only problem is, the 32 bit version of FreeBSD's
unziputility couldn't handle the 8 or 9GB file because it was too large! In the end, I believe I actually had to use OpenJDK's native unzipping utilities to decompress my files, and that worked fine. That was a memory I'd almost forgotten about, I haven't run into that problem in years. Thanks for the post OP! :)Offtopic but obligatory:
https://archive.org/donate/
IMO Internet Archive is one of the most important resources on the web and something we really shouldn't take for granted, so need to consistently make efforts to ensure stays well funded.