Re: Universal version soon??? - deharbe

If my memory serves me right, the universal binaries will be available only from FF 2.0 on. You may check the web site of Firefox to confirm this information.

Meanwhile, I recommend Camino, which is really fast on Intel Core Duo. It misses a few interesting features of Firefox, but I have seen that there is a set of add-ons called Cami Tools that may fill those needs (I need to try this though).

Best,

David.
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Wednesday, March 22 2006 @ 04:37 PM PST

Universal version soon??? - jemo07

Also, if you can't live without FireFox like me (;]^) the take a look at Der Park, it's FF 2.0 (I think) at it's rock solid on the iMac Core Duo that I'm ussing.

look at this link for more info:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/releases/alpha2.html

Regards,


JM

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Sunday, April 09 2006 @ 11:00 AM PDT

Universal version soon??? - Free-User

At least, please know what you are talking about.

This is *alpha* software, meaning that it is incomplete and full of bugs. Also, Firefox 1.5 supercedes Deer Park Alpha 2, as Deer Park is the codename for version 1.5.

Even if it was a build of the upcoming Firefox 2, you should not recommend the use of incomplete software. Only developers or tester should use them, not the general public.

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Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 04:08 PM PDT

General Public Are Developers (sort of) - McClie

Remember that you only have Firefox because of the Open Source community which encourages non-developers to join in the development process by testing it (the general user is better than a developer at spotting what needs changed for real world use). A large proportion of Firefox users have been using it from long before it went 1.0. I have been using versions of Mozilla since the code was donated to the open source community by Netscape. I am no developer, I can just about write a Hello World programme in Basic (it wouldn't compile for me in C, so I gave up coding).

Many of course lack the confidence to use pre-1.0 software, but to cite one correpsondent when Camino 0.7 was announced; "Your 0.7 is someone else's 2.3". There is nothing wrong with you avoiding Deer Park (which is really beta although it is called alpha), but equally there is nothing wrong with inviting members of the general public to give it a spin.

Of course you can play safe with Safari which is a closed source adaptation of the open source khtml which began life as the browser in Linux's KDE environment. But the open source community would welcome as many of the general public as possibly to help their development processes.

You might guess that when I switched to Mac it was not from Windows, but from Linux.

PS Firefox has just gone Universal.

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Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 04:55 PM PDT