April 2006 Archives

Firefox Update for Mac on PC

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I get the unified application structure idea for Firefox, where the single application ports to various operating systems, but this is a little ridiculous. My copy of Firefox on a PC just auto-updated. I hadn’t heard that an update was due, so I checked out what’s new:

Firefox 1.5.0.2 provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors…

Great! So now Firefox is a universal binary. So why did it auto-update my PC?

Password Cracking Speed

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