Trying out Firefox 1.5 RC2 for Mac. 1.5 beta on Windows was a bit ‘betaish’ … Plugins didn’t work, it crashed a lot.

Anyway, I thought the way Firefox packaged their app was cool. In OSX, you can package and store folder background images, icon sizes, all kinds of stuff to really polish your ‘installation’. I put installation in quotes because installing under Mac is as easy as dragging and dropping. Which is exactly what Firefox is depicting here …

They want you to drag the .app file (which is a self contained application with everything you need usually to run it) to your Applications folder. Although you don’t have to do this. You could run it from you desktop or wherever. But that little folder with the gray “A” is supposed to be your Applications folder. Without any words, it’s clear they want you do drag and add (plus sign) the application. Clever! No words! No documentation changes across languages! Nice!

Also they appear to have changed the default icon for the .dmg file that gets mounted. How polished.

I don’t remember any of these details on 1.0.7 or earlier but I could be mistaken. Correct me, scold me, abuse me in the comments section. The safety word is watermelon.