is Firefox 4 beta available for PowerPC MacOS X? It says not
Hi, I downloaded Firefox4 b7 for my MacOS X 10.5.8 system, PowerPC not Intel. After opening the .dmg image, the Firefox icon appears with the circle-slash superimposed on it, and I am told that it is not available for my architecture. I tried to check the system requirements for the 4b7 on mozilla.org, but the page just takes me to the system requirements for the 3.6 release, which is OK for PowerPC. So should 4b7 work on PowerPC, or is it yet another Intel-only upgrade? Thanks in advance.
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Support for Power PC has been dropped in Firefox 4, it will only work on Intel Macs.
there is now a community build for power Macs (it runs on 10.4 also).
Wow. Seems a bit slipshod of Mozilla. Given that companies don't typically trash machines that cost upwards from three thousand dollars when the system in place is working, why would Mozilla just leave us behind? I have no plans to toss my power PCs just because Intel Macs exist. When (if) my workflow demands the change then, sure. But I have to switch to Google Chrome now? Was Power PC parallel dev that draining?
Well part of the problem is that previously the downloads supported both Intel and PPC versions in a combined download and then as of Firefox 4.0 the 64-bit builds was supported also (also on Linux but not Windows) and they bumped the old PPC out in favor of 64-bit and have a 32-bit/64-bit combined download instead.
Either you can use the still supported 3.6.18 or the third-party builds as mentioned or build them yourself.
Modified by James
Where could I find working instructions to build Firefox 8 on a PowerPC Linux box?
Firefox doesn't work on Intel Macs. I'm running Mac 10.6.8 on one of these machines, and Firefox constantly causes web pages to hang, making it necessary to "Force-quit". I used to be a happy user of the browser, until and including version 3.6.24. But no longer : all the following versions, including 8.0.1, have caused this hanging.
Worse : I detailed my problem in a thread on one of these Mozilla forums. About ten days later I received an email telling me that two contributors to the help forum had reported that they'd found a solution to the problem. I went on the forum to have a look, and was interested to see that the two contributors quoted in the email, far from sayingthat the problem was solved, were saying quite the opposite and thinking of dropping Firefox altogether. So the email from Mozailla was erroneous.
So : does anyone know what's going on ?
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