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Firefox goes Universal

by Dan Pourhadi Apr 14th 2006 at 6:30AM

Macworld reports that, finally, Firefox has gone Universal. The new version, 1.5.0.2, released Thursday, is said to be a "critical" update, and it is "strongly [recommended] that everyone update as soon as possible." From the Firefox website, updates include:

  • Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new MacIntel chipsets.
  • Improvements to product stability.

Users of Firefox 1.5 should expect to receive the update automatically within the next few days, but anyone with a version prior to 1.5 will need to download and install it manually.

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Tita

It updated automatically for me too... and I immediately deselect that option!

Actually FireFox is better then Safari, especially if you have an old Mac.
But it is just my opinion.

Safari crash veeeery often!

Happy Eastern

Titanio

April 15 2006 at 1:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mathmonkey

It's not worth it for me until shockwave goes universal.

April 14 2006 at 10:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Goobimama

Is firefox better than Safari? Also, is OmniWeb better than the firefox and safari?

April 14 2006 at 9:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fabienne Serriere

i'd like to add that this is the first time that firefox has automatically updated on a mac for me (i'm on a powerpc with os x). it actually freaked me out and i thought "ack pop up spam!", but it was just the updater asking me to relaunch firefox.

April 14 2006 at 8:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas

Yea!! I've been running the beta builds and they've rocked!

April 14 2006 at 8:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ssgelm

Keep in mind that intel mac users who are running the PPC version, must download the full version from the website - the built in update will only update it to another PPC-only version.

April 14 2006 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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