What is the difference between .tar.z and .xpi?
- Extension
- .tar.z
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Data
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- A TAR.Z file is a Unix TAR archive compressed with a standard Unix compression algorithm to save disk space. It contains one or more compressed files. The file is commonly used on Unix operating systems to archive groups of files.
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a binary XML format for exchange of data on a computer network. It was developed by the W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group and is one of the most prominent efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing. Improvements in the performance of writing (generating) content depends on the speed of the medium being written to, the methods and quality of actual implementations.
- MIME Type
- application/x-tarz
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia