Crash after fresh online-setup install

Try downloading this build:
https://www.smartftp.com/download

And install it over your current SmartFTP setup.

yes, that works (as expected). but installing via online-setup should always download the latest working version to your pc, shouldn't it?

Don't use online setup ... use the NSIS installer

great answer ... ;-) if we shouldn't use it, why is it there?

btw: i used to use the nsis installer, because it's much smaller than the msi one. but the big minus is that online-updating doesn't work with smartftp when installed via nsis.