Beta 6

[cmChimera]

With great power comes great responsibility.

But in earnestness, it is not Apple's responsibility only till the point where it is not something of their doing in the first place that they are working to fix.

Things are not so black and white where we can make off-the-cuff statements like that.

Case in Point: I use Rapidweaver and a plugin was not working owing to notarisation issues. Two betas later, the plugin started working. This meant that Apple fixed something in their software that (apart from other things) was also causing the plugin to not work. Nothing the developer of either the plugin or Rapidweaver could do in that case.

It becomes Mozilla's responsibility when Apple makes a change that requires developers to make compatibility changes - this becomes clear to the developers early on and they are usually quick to confirm to their user base that a fix is in the works and will be available by the time an OS releases. So long as that is not the case, all "breakups" are Apple's doing and the onus to fix that lies with them alone.

It is in this instance, because the reason Firefox doesn't work is due to a bug in MacOS.

Ok that's fair. If it is indeed Apple's fault due to a bug (and not a feature or intentional change), then yes it is Apple's need to fix it.

 

[dan9700]

This is becoming a joke no way will this be ready next month

 

[MAlexB]

Look here: https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/

 

[ivanpasic]

developer beta 6 is up!

 

[adrianlondon]

Look here: https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/

developer beta 6 is up!

I know it's nothing to do with either of you, but thanks so much! Downloading now. Let's see what they've broken this time.

 

[PastaPrimav]

I would install it but I need to use my computer for the next 3 days.

 

[adrianlondon]

I would install it but I need to use my computer for the next 3 days.

Where's your sense of adventure?

 

[PastaPrimav]

Where's your sense of adventure?

LOL already installing it on my laptop.

 

[cmChimera]

Is Public Beta out as well?

 

[PastaPrimav]

And its already done, so it looks like they've resolved those insane long install times.

 

[saimonsays1991]

And its already done, so it looks like they've resolved those insane long install times.

well?? what do you think about it??

 

[adrianlondon]

I'm posting here from Firefox! I can't believe how happy that makes me.

My install went relatively quickly, but then all of them have. I've not had one of those long installs that others seem to get. I'll go through my Feedbacks to remind myself what was broken and post in the beta-7 thread if I find any interesting fixes or breakages.

 

[saimonsays1991]

I'm posting here from Firefox! I can't believe how happy that makes me.

My install went relatively quickly, but then all of them have. I've not had one of those long installs that others seem to get. I'll go through my Feedbacks to remind myself what was broken and post in the beta-7 thread if I find any interesting fixes or breakages.

can you tell us something about the whole system crashes and hangs?

 

[adrianlondon]

can you tell us something about the whole system crashes and hangs?

No, as I never had those.

 

[saimonsays1991]

No, as I never had those.

Lucky you lol

 

[adrianlondon]

Lucky you lol

I've been moaning on another thread about my Messenger app sometimes hanging on quit, and the fact Spotlight always searches my iCloud Drive even though I've tried to stop it, and someone posted "works for me!". Grr. We all have our own problems

 

[Installshield]

Booting with eGPU only does not work on Mac Mini 2018 yet although it has updated the Boot ROM from 1037.0.39.151.1 (iBridge: 17.16.10521.5.4.0) in Beta 5 to 1037.0.52.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16. 10531.5.4,0) in Beta 6

 

[Realityck]

It’s not Apple’s responsibility to make Firefox work properly.

Well they fixed that in the b6 dev release. So yes it was Apple’s fault it quit immediately upon start up. Hope this release works better for posters here.

 

[FishyFish]

The News app crashes for me on every launch. Anyone else?

 

[nortonandreev]

The News app crashes for me on every launch. Anyone else?

Works for me.

 

[cmbarclay]

Is iCloud Drive working now?

 

[BaggieBoy]

Thunderbird is working again, however now Banktivity 7 crashes!

 

[Realityck]

The News app crashes for me on every launch. Anyone else?

Before it was stalled loading news, maybe it would work the first notification. Now it is back to working OK fo me on laptop/iMac.

 

[cmChimera]

Public beta is available.

 

[specialistmarcos]

Hey guys, kudos for those who complained on forums and submitted feedback reports. I left my iMac unattended for three hours and imagine my shock when I came back and realised that the update was finished. No hassles this time. No APFS corruptions. Did not have to do a fresh install and then a recovery from time machine. That is how a beta is supposed to be!