Mozilla ports Firefox to Macintosh powered by Intel Platform
July 4th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 33 times, 1 so far today
Mozilla ports Firefox to Macintosh powered by Intel Platform
Josh Aas, a chief developer of the Mozilla Firefox browser and an employee of the Mozilla Foundation has confirmed that the foundation has ported the popular browser to the Apple Mac OS running on the Intel based processors. He posted this news on his Blog, which has been one of the big sources of information on stuff going on at Mozilla Foundation.
Aas said in his post: “Apple employees got Firefox running on an Intel Mac for the sake of using it as a demonstration of what it takes to port a complex application. I think for the first time in the history of Mac Mozilla products, we’re actually ahead of the game in a wayâ€. Apple is due to release their computers running Intel Processors only next year.
The news came as a shock to the public and the people involved in technology when Apple announced that they are leaving their collaboration with IBM to use their PowerPC processors for their Apple Computers. Apple would start moving onto Intel Processors from next year with the complete transition due in 2007.
IBM on their part are busy this year with both Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 going to use their processors to power the next generation gaming consoles.
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July 4th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
This news was first reported on June 8th here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/josh/archives/2005/06/wwdc_firefox_ca.html.
“So we’re on it, and you’ll have fresh native copies of Firefox and Camino for your shiny new Intel macs when or soon after thay come out. Great news: Apple actually ported Firefox to Intel already, and they are giving us the patches. They used Firefox as an example of how to port to Intel. Lucky me, because now I don’t have to do it.“
July 5th, 2005 at 05:45 am
I think you mean one of the un-official sources of information on stuff going on at Mozilla Foundation. An employee’s personal blog may be a good source but it’s never official.
July 5th, 2005 at 03:01 pm
well most other news sources prefer to quote ASA rather than official press releases of the organisation… but right, he can be wrong and he often is… with respect to competitors.