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Firefox Ported to Mac OS X for Intel

Posted by Hemos on from the already-underway dept.

daria42 writes "Mozilla Firefox has been ported to Mac OS X for Intel, with the assistance of Apple who provided some preliminary patches. Mozilla foundation employee Josh Aas write on his blog that while the patches were out of date by the time Apple sent them to him, they were still useful. "The Apple patches were extremely valuable because they did a lot of work for us and at least pointed us right to many of the problem areas instead of us having to figure out what we need to do," he wrote."

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  1. Big News: by AkaXakA · · Score: 5, Funny

    A large, but cross-platform program with lean (mostly) platform independant code has been ported to Yet Another Platform(tm)!

    Anyway, cudos to Apple for pointing Josh into the right direction.

  2. Re:where's my Mac Mini?? by GaryPatterson · · Score: 3, Funny

    For years now, I've been asking for levitating PowerBooks and Segway-mounted towers from Apple.

    And now, with the prospect of Pentium-based PowerBooks, I'll be able to have the former.

    Just pop the case off and turn the unit upside down. The air blasting out of that sucker should keep a few kilograms airborne. ...

    You know... after about five years, my wishes from Apple seem a little dated. Maybe I should get back onto waiting for that up-and-coming game company, Bungie, to finish Halo so I can play it on my Mac first!

  3. Re:Cynical by PygmySurfer · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...ensure that there will native software for Mactel.

    English is easier said than done.

    Indeed...