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Firefox for Intel Macs Planned for March
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."
There are still plenty of older mac's out there suffering without a decent build for OS9.
yes those mac's are very useable and valuable to the schools and people that have them.
Yet the great OSS giant firefox has ignored them with a vengence.
Hell I can get a version of Firefox that runs on windows 95.
Your comment is COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC!
The point is, Macs don't have a lot of market share. Who cares if firefox is available for it? Mac users will probably just stick with Safari anyway.
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Well this is all well and good but if they're doing any work relating to plugins such as Flash then I wish they'd devote some time to fixing the plugin manager.
I'm one of those users who have no use for Flash. Absolutely no use whatsoever. I tried it, got really sick of nauseous animated advertising and removed it. It's not coming back on my box ever.
So now every time I go to a page with Flash on it Firefox lets me know this by putting a prominent yellow bar at the top of the page telling me I "NEED" to install a plugin. No thankyou, I do not "NEED" to install the plugin, I do not want the plugin.
So I have some questions for any Firefox devs who may care to read this post.
1 Why is this done in such an obnoxious manner ? There should be a small icon in the status bar to inform me of missing plugins, not a dirty great piece of page vandalism.
2 Why can't I switch this behaviour off ? I've tried the about:config "plugin.default_plugin_disabled" setting and it makes no difference.
3 Why doesn't the plugin manager behave like the popup blocker ? The popup blocker is a lovely feature which, after the first time it blocks a popup, just sits in the status bar quietly notifying me it's just blocked a popup. It's one of the main reasons I started using Firefox because it didn't get in the way.
Sadly after thinking I'd raise a bug about this it would appear that there are already several old entries in bugzilla asking for this to be fixed and the devs just don't seem to care.
Ho hum...
Just seems to prove the old management theory that if you leave coders to their own devices they'll just go off and work on new and interesting things rather than do the boring work of fixing bugs that the users want fixing.
Firefox: Fantastic.
Firefox's Plugin Manager: Bag O'Shite.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
I've asked this before, but does anyone know when NeoOffice will be ported? If I get an intel mac I don't want to have to buy MS Office, and AbiWord is broken under OS X.
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