Mozilla took the time to test its Firefox web browser against this build and concluded that some code corrections were in order.Īs such, Firefox 5.0.1 was released this week with workarounds for an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that would cause Firefox to crash, as well as for an issue caused by Apple's "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5" where the Java plugin would not be loaded.ĭownload Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X (Free) The Golden Master build of OS X Lion has recently been released to Apple developers.
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New features include Mission Control, Launchpad, new Multi-Touch gestures, AirDrop, Versions, AutoSave, an all new version of Mail, and dozens of other new additions that make the software more user friendly, as well as more advanced in terms of functionality. It brings tons of enhancements, both aesthetically and under-the-hood, but most of them are about function. Scheduled to debut sometime this month, OS X Lion is the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system. It makes the point that Desktop Java is currently problematic and mainly used to support server-side Java development.Two workarounds have been included in a new version of Firefox, the popular open source web browser from Mozilla, following the discovery of one issue that caused the application to misbehave under OS X 10.7 Lion, and another that caused the Java plugin to fail to load. “ shoes.drop() ” is a good in-depth analysis by Chris Adamson.
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Now people are free to speculate and some blame Apple, others blame Oracle. They should have consulted before Apple dropped this kind of a bomb. The main problem is that neither Apple nor Oracle have really communicated what all of this means.Maybe Apple thought about the difficulties of implementing the new look of Mac OS X Lion in Swing and considered it too expensive. Mimicking Apple’s GUI will always be a moving target, anyway. While the Swing Aqua look and feel was nice, Nimbus (which appeared in Java SE 6u10) is good enough for me. There is a petition for Apple to hand over its custom code to the open source community. There is an open source Java for the Mac, but it runs under X-Windows, thus Swing is not well integrated (but: Eclipse and SWT run on it, too).Oracle is very profit-driven and server-oriented, so I’m not sure if they see a business case for Java on Mac OS X.I don’t know of any software-related degree where Java or the JVM is not needed at some point. But they are still an influential group whose support Apple won’t want to lose. Those developers mainly work on server-side applications, so their work is not directly relevant for Apple. Having Java on the Mac is important, because many developers need it.In the past, it has been slow to support the newest version, so this change could be for the better. Apple obviously and understandably does not want to handle Java, any more.
They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. Then either Apple didn’t think this through or it used it as a negotiation tactic.Īpple is currently warning developers that Java might not be bundled with Mac OS X Lion. This is how it should have been done all along, before announcing the deprecation.
Update : “ Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X”.
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