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		macintux on Jan 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon The point to Rosetta this misses, however, is that for the vast majority of use cases it’s silently re-installed on demand.

glandium on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

It essentially works only when launching apps from the Finder or the dock (not when app A launches app B, except if it did something about it, but that's unlikely) and brings up a prompt window. The opposite of silent.

macintux on Jan 21, 2021 | [–]

I wasn’t aware of the prompt. Mea culpa.

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