Comments on: Unofficial OS X Intel binaries: Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.10

By: crz.lt » Blog Archive » Firefox/Thunderbird unofficial Intel optimized OS X builds updated

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:20:30 +0000

[...] Unofficial OS X Intel binaries: Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 Apr 25 [...]

By: Per Rønnow

Per Rønnow — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:26:51 +0000

I downloaded both BonEcho and Thunderbird a couple of hours ago. Those are really fast apps. I have spread the news here i Denmark.
Thanks for the good work.

Greetings from Per

By: Aurimas

Aurimas — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:25:44 +0000

Good question. I’m not sure yet if the result’s worth the effort that is if Intel binaries are actually significantly faster that the universal ones. One question comes to my mind: if they really are faster then why the hell all the apps in os x are universal binaries? I doubt if apple is just too lazy to make separate binaries for ppc and for the intel or that it just lacks some free space in datastore for separate binaries.

I’ll make some benchmarks as soon as I will find time for that and share my results here so keep subscribed . Oh, and about the list – I will not manage one so if you want to stay tuned, just subscribe to the category feed.

By: Mac vs PC

Mac vs PC — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:01:47 +0000

Well done, now why could’t they have done this?? If you have a mailing list to let people know when you have updated the updates please ad me.

Going to give Firefox a try and give you a Digg…

http://www.switchingtomac.com/