Pu7o Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Well, it's really simple. First, download the official Firefox or a Firefox nightly from somewhere and install it. Make sure that it's at /Applications/Firefox.app. Then, open a terminal and type the following command: curl http://falcao.homelinux.org/~puto/universal-firefox-files.tar.bz2 | tar -xjvC /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS All done, Firefox should now be an universal binary, yet it's still branded as "Firefox" and not "Deer Park". This includes the about window and such, as well (the other HOWTO around here only changes the icon and text, the about window and start page and all that are still pointing to deer park). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shimms Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Except after following these instructions, Firefox no longer loads. It appears in the dock for less than a second and closes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nylock10 Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Same here what's up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 If you're having trouble with Pu7o's guide, try mine. It leaves a few inconsistancies, but at least it works! http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=8555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 That's really weird. I tested it myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Well, I just checked, and it does work. I have no idea why you're having any problems. Tested on a real Intel iMac, 17" model, OS X 10.4.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nylock10 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Well I'm running 10.4.1 so that is probably the problem. With 10.4.3+ it will be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmotion Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 amazing guide, they should sticky this... i myself am not a big fan of deerpark... but universal firefox is pure joy thx man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrithranduil Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 it works here and its finally a lot faster how is it possible to make it universal with the terminal?? is it also possible with other applications like word and microsoft messenger (id like to see that baby a lot faster) sorry if its a stupid question iam not that experienced with this stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 No, that wouldn't be possible. The reason that this actually works is that the binaries are being replaced (noticed the ~10mb download? that's the binaries). http://falcao.homelinux.org/~puto/universa...x-files.tar.bz2 contains the universal FX files, i.e. the ones that actually differ between an universal and a powerpc-only release. The branding is in Resources/ and chrome/, and that's left alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyman Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 I'd like to test this but first I'd like to know which files are being replaced if I use the latest DeerPark trunk versions. I would not want new files to be replaced by old ones. Assuming we take the firefox-1.5.0.2.en-US.mac.dmg or the firefox-1.6a1.en-US.mac.dmg and apply your patch to the binaries, what are the differences between the original an the patched binaries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 You'd get a plain Firefox 1.5.0.1 anyway. The binaries are just universal versions of FX 1.5.0.1. The files being replaced are: - The res folder (since I included my aqua widgets patch) - All *.dylib files - The firefox-bin file (the main executable). See the tarball for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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