Cocoa Firefox Makes Its Debut, But What Exactly Is It?
Published August 17th, 2006
Cocoa Firefox nightly builds on Mozilla FTP server
Very interesting news, and equally interesting discussion about the name of this new Mozilla browser. It's not Camino---Camino is pure Cocoa, written in InterfaceBuilder and xCode---but it's not Firefox, either---it uses the Cocoa API's rather than the Carbon ones. It still uses the native XUL interface language, which is why---I believe---this browser will be able to run the whole plethora of Firefox plugins. It should be faster than Firefox on Mac OS X, and might be a little prettier, too. Plus, it will let native Cocoa plugins work, too... I think? The download is called "Minefield", by the way... with a warning that it's still a very young puppy.
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