Just thinking about freeing up some space.
Firefox updates itself over the top of the previous version.
So do nearly all programs that update themselves, unless you take specific steps to prevent it. When you update, you are not usually downloading a whole new version of the program anyway, just some patches.
Oracle/Sun recommends you delete any old versions of Java before installing a new version.
One program that doesn’t remove old updates is World of Warcraft. Other than that, I can’t think of any that don’t…
You can go to the Windows “free disk space” wizard and have it empty the Temp folder. The Temp folder is where downloaded files usually end up when the update process is done, but I assume you’ve already emptied it.
Yeah, but, for some reason, you get multiple uninstall entries, at least, in the last few versions.
Even if you removed Firefox completely, it isn’t really big enough that a recent hard drive would have any meaningful amount of space cleared up.
Except for iTunes, though that does uninstall older versions.
I assume the OP is talking about all the saved exes that performed the updates. They of course can be deleted as soon as you have run them.