Closed Bug 307669 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Firefox PPC in Mac OS X not optimized at all

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307668

People

(Reporter: m.rick.mac, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

It is has been shown that the new Apple developer computer based on INtel chips
runs Tiger with an emulator called Rosetta for PPC coded softwares. This
emulator runs the softwares natively in the system and translate PPC code into
x86 code on the fly, so there is a loss of speed of around 20-30 %.

But with Firefox running via Rosetta it is faster than directly under PPC ! So
it is really clear that the Mac OS X PPC version of Firefox it is really not
optimized at all.

Reproducible: Always

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307668 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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