[osinsh]

Hi, everyone!
Now our company is on the way to get brand new internet site. We had many offers, but now, on final step, remains just two of them.
Now - the problem [or interesting question]:
Site administration will wotk on IE and FireFox. IE, FOR SURE, isn't an option. But question about Mozilla - how good it runs on macs? Will it be rather slower, than on PC or performanc will not change as much?
thanx!

[PurpleGiant]

Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox are about equal on Mac OS X and Windows. They render sites exactly the same, and their speed is about equal.

Provided your new website is tested in all the main browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari...Opera to a lesser extent) then you will be fine.

[Millennium]

If a site works in Firefox on Windows, then you can be reasonably confident about it working on the Mac. They use the same rendering engine code, and although platform-specific rendering bugs do pop up on occasion they're very rare and usually minor.

[Millennium]

Actually, one place where you do need to be careful: if it's critical that a site work on Firefox/Mac, avoid Flash. It's not a rendering issue, per se, but there's a platform-specific bug which causes FF/Mac to sort of pseudo-hang on some Flash movies. It's not a real freeze, but the browser stops responding unless you're holding down the mouse button (it works at that point, but since you're holding down the mouse button you can't click on anything, and that's a problem).

This bug has been fixed in the nightly builds of Deer Park (the Firefox 1.1 alphas), but since Deer Park was recently delayed and the version number bumped up to 1.5, the actual release isn't likely to come for a couple of months yet.

[G-Force]

One thing that may help is to use an optimized version of Firefox for your computer. Here is a link for a G5 optimized Firefox http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2.../20/firefox106

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by G-Force

One thing that may help is to use an optimized version of Firefox for your computer. Here is a link for a G5 optimized Firefox http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2.../20/firefox106

Those builds are nightlies, though, aren't they? If so, then they've already got the bugfix; the optimization doesn't have anything to do with it.

[ghporter]

I've run into the Flash bug with Firefox for OS X; it's why my wife still uses Safari. Firefox is up to 1.0.6 on both platforms, and I haven't tried the "troublesome" sites since I upgraded to that level on the Mac, but there are a lot of people who just don't think about upgrading when "everything seems to work." I'd do what Millenium says and stay away from Flash-or detect Firefox and give those users something non-Flash.

[gheff]

Originally Posted by Millennium

Those builds are nightlies, though, aren't they? If so, then they've already got the bugfix; the optimization doesn't have anything to do with it.

I think that link refers to the release 1.0.6 version, which is what I normally use. The are also G5 DeerPark builds available, but since most of my favorite extensions seem to get blasted with those, I look at them only occasionally to check the progress.

[bmedina]

Originally Posted by Millennium

Those builds are nightlies, though, aren't they? If so, then they've already got the bugfix; the optimization doesn't have anything to do with it.

I think he's talking about increasing the speed of Firefox on Mac OS in general, not the Falsh bug.

[G-Force]

Originally Posted by bmedina

I think he's talking about increasing the speed of Firefox on Mac OS in general, not the Falsh bug.

Yes, that's what I'm talking about.