Mozilla 1.3b...now Mach-O

mrmistermrmister
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Hmmm. Mozilla 1.3b seems to be just as fast as Chimera, to my eyes at least. I've been using it all morning, and there are a lot of features (esp. selective pop-up blocking) that rock pretty hard...and you can skin it Aqua, if that is your thing.



Certainly makes the OSX browser situation interesting!

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    You mean using Aqua Theme right?
  • Reply 2 of 4
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    <a href="http://www.kmgerich.com/pinstripe/pinstripe.html"; target="_blank">Pinstripe r0x0r</a>
  • Reply 3 of 4
    stevesteve Posts: 523member
    Anyway you slice it, the structure and speed of the interface is still abysmal compared to any native app. When will Linux people learn that just doing a straight, clunky port to different platforms is not the way to go...



    [ 02-12-2003: Message edited by: Steve ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 4
    stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox Posts: 1,618member
    [quote]Originally posted by Steve:

    <strong>When will Linux people learn that just doing a straight, clunky port to different platforms is not the way to go...

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    While you are correct, in that the UI--like most skinnable apps--sucks in many ways and isn't 100% Mac, the reason has nothing to do with Linux or straight, clunky ports.



    The Mozilla project had platform independence as one of its primary goals and this is why today it runs on all sorts of crazy platforms like OS/2, Beos and Mac OS 9. And they are all compiling from the same code tree.



    Unfortunately, cross-platform almost always means a lowest-common-denominator approach. Java's AWT and Swing toolkits suffer from similar problems. These toolkits aren't fully native on *any* platform.



    It's just a engineering trade-off and the solution they created has worked well if you consider more than just GUI consistency, like the availability of gecko to make Chimera and forthcoming apps based on the Mozilla platform.
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