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Firefox for Intel Macs Planned for March

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-was-quick dept.

daria42 writes "Although there are unofficial builds already available, Mozilla will release an official version of Firefox for Intel Mac OS X in March, developer Josh Aas says. There are only a couple of minor bugs to work through, such as Flash and Java support."

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  1. Camino by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 4, Informative

    Camino is seriously a lot nicer gecko for mac than firefox. It actually integrates with OS X and it uses Cocoa. From a usability standpoint is much further ahead.

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    1. Re:Camino by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Informative

      But it doesn't support extensions.

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  2. Re:A request from a user. by Nermal6693 · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the Mozilla wiki:

    The Intel Mac work for Firefox, Thunderbird, and Camino is largely done. All fixes are checked in, and you can build for Intel Macs right out of CVS. We have 2 more tasks:

    make a universal binary packaging system
    set up an Intel Mac tinderbox

  3. All 4 Intel Macs are already in top 15 on amazon by e1618978 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/t op-sellers/-/pc/all/pc/0/1/1/1/104-6461076-7991161

  4. Re:When will devs learn ? by Phroggy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Flash and Java support are NOT minor bugs.

    When a developer calls a bug minor, it doesn't necessarily mean the end user impact is minor, it often means the bug itself is minor, i.e. relatively simple to fix.

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  5. Re:Why so difficult? by falkryn · · Score: 4, Informative

    and as the parent of young 'uns, I've (or rather my oldest son (7)) been discovering how much there is out there in terms of kids flash based games. and not just the old yahoo! type space invaders games of yore, full blown stuff a while back you would have had to pay for. one of my oldest's favorite site lately appears to be this: http://club.lego.com/eng/games/ , there many more (pbs kids, kids wb, tvo kids, etc...) mind you, I have noticed that flash on safari here (osx on a g4 with a gig of ram) really can bring the system to a crawl (haven't used firefox on osx much, though extensively on other platforms)

  6. Re:I hope we don't get over-trolled on this one by bdaehlie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Had Apple released their hardware closer to when they said they were going to, we would probably have been ready immediately. That was the plan :) That said, I'm happy to get off the Intel developer kit and onto production equipment and a solid OS release a few months early. -Josh Aas