Verified location for checksums
Hello folks,
I need to do a clean install requiring the download of Thunderbird.exe file, I did ask a similar question a while ago but this was related to a Linux install.
Is it just me or does no one lese use checksums anymore, web sites would often suggest checking downloads publishing their checksums on the same pages as the download, this doesn't seem to be the case for Thunderbird hence my question below:
There's a directory list below, would it be safe to assume this relates to the latest download on Thunderbirds home page Version 115.7.0 https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.7.0/releasenotes/
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.7.0/
I had a quick look on Source Forge as they usually have a page with hash codes but couldn't find Thunderbird listed.
Thanks
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Basically I don't think anyone much uses checksums any longer, nor do they mess with CRC. You do not see them in the apple or Google store, the windows store is likewise missing them. That leaves a very small residual market for software installs these days and an even smaller group who would be requesting such things, generally in the Linux community and they tend to be the network administrators and server administrators that are prepared to spend time verifying what they downloaded is what they started out with. I remember updating MVS systems on Wang hardware and spending inordinate amounts of time verifying CRC checks on the update files, without ever having one fail the test and that was on 8inch floppies where data issues were relatively common.
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Yes, that's the official site. Another site for most recent, but without the sums, is https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/
Cheers David, its odd to list them elsewhere as kind of defeats the object, Linux Mint and others still provide checksums in text files along with their download page.
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/verify.html
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Basically I don't think anyone much uses checksums any longer, nor do they mess with CRC. You do not see them in the apple or Google store, the windows store is likewise missing them. That leaves a very small residual market for software installs these days and an even smaller group who would be requesting such things, generally in the Linux community and they tend to be the network administrators and server administrators that are prepared to spend time verifying what they downloaded is what they started out with. I remember updating MVS systems on Wang hardware and spending inordinate amounts of time verifying CRC checks on the update files, without ever having one fail the test and that was on 8inch floppies where data issues were relatively common.
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