Tread lightly on the things of earth

I’ve been using Mach-o Mozilla 0.9.9+ (on Mac OS X) almost exclusively for several days now. I’m keeping 30+ tabbed windows open and it doesn’t crash or even slow down. It’s noticebly faster than either the normal OSX (CFM) Mozilla or the XDarwin version built in Fink. The command keys work only sometimes, which is a nuisance, but other than that it’s superb.

“What is mach-o: Mach-O Carbon applications are built using Apple’s Project Builder, and the object code is designed for the Mach kernel. Why mach-o mozilla: Is Mozilla with an UNIX back-end (UNIX infrastructure for threading and networking) and a MacOS/Carbon front-end. Result, a very fast browser. Warning(s): Mach-O builds run extremely fast with lower ram requirements (than CFM builds), but are highly experimental. Tons of issues exist such as filepickers not working, apple event support not working, no splash screen, profiles in .mozilla, lack of keybindings etc. It’s not quite ready for prime-time… yet!”

<!— imported into MT from 2002 Radio entry via RE on 2003-12-10 —>