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Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by bikeshaving »

jorl17 wrote: post #22
bikeshaving wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Safari 14? I recently upgraded and they’ve finally fixed the address bar race conditions and swipe back/forward lag which drove me away in previous versions.

Sorry to but in but do you perhaps know if they've addressed the issues that made me switch from Safari to Firefox maybe 2 years ago? I listed them here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25132068

I’m very familiar with Safari address bar issues, where sometimes Safari just fails to navigate to a URL and you get an audible bell, or just general weirdness when you type too fast, and can say I have yet to experience these same issues in 14. I’m sure there are other problems but Safari has generally improved with every release.

RE: extensions, I run Adguard for Safari and that’s pretty much it; it’s free and it catches most ads. Safari also has built in tracker blocking now, which is nice to have but more or less ignorable.

The nice thing about having Safari be your main browser is that you can reserve Chrome for development, and having a vanilla Chrome browser where content scripts don’t haphazardly log things to the console or block requests is really nice.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by ryukafalz »

flatiron wrote: post #9
helloycombinat wrote: post #7

What does this mean? M1 isn't an ARM64? Is it saying there's extra opcodes and this takes advantage of them?

I assume this means it’s compiling with Xcode targeting the M1. Firefox has never had to target aarch64 on macOS before.

It's long since targeted aarch64 on Linux though, so it's not too surprising to me that they have it ready so quickly.

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Post by imagetic »

Klonoar wrote: post #28
beached_whale wrote: post #14

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Firefox doesn't stutter on infinite scroll sites like Twitter. Safari noticeably does, even in Big Sur. So I am torn between the two.

I have the exact opposite experience, FWIW.

Same. Safari is by far the smoothest experience for me today.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by slivanes »

zapzupnz wrote: post #23
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #20

If you are a dev be careful with these new macs. Docker won't start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073010

Docker has already addressed that, and a link was posted about it yesterday in HN.

They addressed it, but didn't give any indication when x86 containers will be ready (and how they'll do it). Expect at least next year.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by cpuguy83 »

williamscales wrote: post #37

What's the difference between this version of Firefox and the version of Firefox that can be installed on an iPad? I have been running Firefox on Apple silicon for some time I thought.

Unless I'm mistaken, the rendering engine on iOS would only be WebKit, and whatever else safari provides. No alternative aloud. So it's ui/features on top of, essentially, Safari not real Firefox.

Re: Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

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Post by glandium »

williamscales wrote: post #37

What's the difference between this version of Firefox and the version of Firefox that can be installed on an iPad? I have been running Firefox on Apple silicon for some time I thought.

The Firefox you can install on an iPad is a mobile Firefox, designed for iPhone and iPad. This is desktop Firefox, the one you get on a Mac/PC. Also, because of the App Store rules, the mobile version uses WebKit instead of Gecko.
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