Talk:Mac:Intel

jgw writes: Is the frequent loss of all search engine add-ons a known issue?

Markmentovai responds: It's quite possibly bug 317345, which will be fixed in 1.5.0.1 and any Intel releases that will be made in the future. The code that builds the search engine list is one of the things that uses the "broken garbage" that the bug refers to and fixes.

jgw continues: Also possibly related, after this happens I'm unable to launch Firefox. I click on the icon in the Dock and it bounces once or twice and quits. This continues until I reboot or something. 'ps ax' shows no Mozilla-related cruft running. I'm at a loss as to how I would file a useful, informative bug report, here.

Markmentovai retorts: That might be the dyld stub problem we've been seeing. Try launching Firefox from the Terminal, by typing "/path/to/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin" and see if there's any useful output. (Useful to whom? Who knows. Maybe us.)

Markmentovai updates: the dyld helper problem ("lazy pointer not found") was a bug in the DTK's version of dyld. It's reportedly been fixed in the shipping version of 10.4.4. bug 313398 comment 36.

Mike3k writes: You can build universal binaries that will run on 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x as well as x86 using the architecture specific settings in the latest XCode. In your project settings, add:

 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET_ppc  10.2
 GCC_VERSION_ppc               3.3
 SDKROOT_ppc                   /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk

No subpixel rendering

It appears that on 10.4.5 Intel, subpixel rendering is a no go. Fonts are still antialiased; they just don't do anything fancy for LCD displays. This has been filed as bug 328650.

Locking

Shouldn't this page be protected due to the influx of visitors from news reports? (e.g. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39305215,00.htm ). Someone could abuse the page, or edit the links to point to somewhere else for their own purpose.

Kroc 00:29, 17 Jan 2006 (PST)

Kudos

Just tried the 1/17/06 build on my DTK and my new iMac last night. I ran it through some of my usual tests to crash Firefox (rapid quit and reloads, browsing myspace, flash-heavy sites, etc). Not one, single crash thus far.

This is the most stable, fastest build I've seen of any Firefox release so far. It's even faster than Safari for the first time. This is the first time I don't have any particular complaints about Firefox. Awesome job, Josh & Mark and the rest! Your work is very appreciated.

-- Jgw