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They sure appear to need it. I've been following Mac-related Bugzilla-reports during the past year and it seems to be desperately understaffed. But you don't h

by Zirro 14y ago

They sure appear to need it. I've been following Mac-related Bugzilla-reports during the past year and it seems to be desperately understaffed. But you don't have to frequent Bugzilla to see that. For example, Firefox on OS X still has the pre-10.7 scrollbars while Chrome got the new ones fixed shortly after the OS-release. That was now over a year ago. Despite this, Firefox (or Nightly) is still my primary browser for many reasons, including add-ons and the fact that I truly believe that Mozilla want what is best for the web. That last reason is also why I'm so sad to see them fall behind like this. Without their market-share, they won't have much say on web-matters and should the web be shaped completely by money-driven interests, the users would suffer. Please Mozilla, get your act together and don't neglect your browser on any platform. Every user counts.

sciurus 14y ago
"""Choosing "New Window" from Firefox's dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space""" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574229 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574229) has been driving me crazy every day since I started using a Mac for work.
- sciurus 14y ago
  Many thanks to Josh Aas for fixing this!
zpao 14y ago
It's not really a matter of neglect, it's a matter of finding people who actually want to do this. OS integration is pretty difficult with Firefox's codebase, partially because it's not really a native app. Parts are real (like the titlebar) but most isn't (including scrollbars). It's hard & dirty work being done by a very small team. (I'm a former Mozilla employee who added Lion Full Screen support and did some other OS X integration work. If you know somebody who cares about Firefox and wants to work on OS X related work let me know and I'll git in touch with the right people to make that happen.)
- deepGem 14y ago
  This is one area I'd love to work if I end up not doing my startup. The qualifications are pretty steep though. 5+ years Objective C experience :).
mccr8 14y ago
Mozilla is actually looking to hire somebody to work on platform integration on OSX: http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBuTVfwD http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBuTVfwD

by Zirro 14y ago

sciurus 14y ago

"""Choosing "New Window" from Firefox's dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space""" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574229 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574229) has been driving me crazy every day since I started using a Mac for work.

sciurus 14y ago
Many thanks to Josh Aas for fixing this!

zpao 14y ago

It's not really a matter of neglect, it's a matter of finding people who actually want to do this. OS integration is pretty difficult with Firefox's codebase, partially because it's not really a native app. Parts are real (like the titlebar) but most isn't (including scrollbars). It's hard & dirty work being done by a very small team. (I'm a former Mozilla employee who added Lion Full Screen support and did some other OS X integration work. If you know somebody who cares about Firefox and wants to work on OS X related work let me know and I'll git in touch with the right people to make that happen.)

deepGem 14y ago
This is one area I'd love to work if I end up not doing my startup. The qualifications are pretty steep though. 5+ years Objective C experience :).

mccr8 14y ago

Mozilla is actually looking to hire somebody to work on platform integration on OSX: http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBuTVfwD http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBuTVfwD