[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.1 released for testing

[Mark Adler]

On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Greg Roelofs wrote:
> There's no particularly good reason why Firefox couldn't use zlib  
> 1.1.x, right?

Only speed.  inflate is used to decompress HTTP content encodings  
gzip and deflate, which are pretty common.  So the speed may make a  
difference.

1.1.x would have to be 1.1.4 to avoid a security vulnerability in  
1.1.3 and earlier.

mark