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Firefox 3 is built primarily using Cocoa

June 17th, 2008, Hedi Regaya |

Yes, this new release of Firefox is amazing!

Firefox 3 will bring many changes for all Mac users (mostly good), as this is the first release of Firefox that is built primarily using Cocoa for the underlying Gecko 1.9 engine (a project that’s been in the works for years). Along with better redraw speed (CoreGraphics vs. the older QuickDraw API) and improved memory handling, the new engine provides the groundwork for a pure-Cocoa, 64-bit clean version of Firefox in the future. Firefox 3’s UI is more Maclike now, with Aqua-style widgets improving the view.

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First Hands on Firefox 3 (OS X Improvements) | Mac Amour

[...] level of analysis I’m going to do is OS X based ones. As we already said before, Firefox is going to move from the Carbon API, to the modern and classy Cocoa. As a result, Firefox [...]