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April 6, 2006
Help us Test Mac Univeral Binaries - PPC and Intel Mac users
We could use some help testing Mac universal binaries. Here are the scenarios we would like you to test:
Scenario A: Running a Universal Binary build on a PPC Mac with 10.3.x
Scenario B: Running a Universal Binary Mac on a PPC Mac with 10.4.x
Scenario C: Running an Universal Binary build on an Intel Mac under Rosetta (to do this, right click the Firefox icon - under Get Info you will see the Run Under Rosetta checkbox
Scenario D: Running a Universal binary build on an Intel Mac under x86
Directory to download the builds: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/1.5.0.2-candidates/mac-universal/
Please report issues to this blog or file a bug in Bugzilla. Please make sure to mention which scenario you were running under - this will help us to troubleshoot any issues.
Things to try out:
(1) Using your PPC created profile on an Intel Mac
(2) Installing extensions and themes
As always, many thanks for helping out with testing. If someone finds a major stop ship bug (as determined by me :), they get a Firefox Chrome Messenger bag (not sold at the store)
Posted by marcia at April 6, 2006 4:19 PM
Comments
Just out of curiosity, what is the point of getting people to test a universal binary under Rosetta? Is this a situation that would ever actually occur, or are you expecting it to show up less obvious bugs that occur elsewhere?
Posted by: Ian Thomas at April 6, 2006 5:35 PM
My guess is that some users will choose to run it under Rosetta so they can continue using PPC-only plugins (or extensions?).
Btw, I'm curious how well Talkback works in various situations (especially running Intel code on an Intel Mac, and running PPC code under Rosetta on an Intel Mac).
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman at April 6, 2006 7:56 PM
Just got a MacMini Core Duo and it seems to run swell using Native or Rosetta. I haven't done much with it but it seems pretty stable.
Posted by: Peter at April 7, 2006 5:14 AM