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The newest version of the ever popular Firefox browser will launch today at 10:00 PDT. While the news is exciting for all users, Mac users should be particularly excited due to the “under the hood” changes. The biggest change took place in the Gecko engine (version 1.9) for OS X , which was largely switched to Cocoa. While Gecko is not entirely Carbon free, the days of Carbon code in the Gecko engine appear to be numbered.

If you’re into the super geeky under the hood change details, you can check out a blog post by Josh Aas, one of the Mozilla Mac developers. Josh has even posted about the development for Gecko 1.9.1 for OS X.

The official Download Day website for Firefox 3 is HERE. It sounds like Firefox 3 will be the best Mac version of Firefox yet!

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The people who brought you the Late Night Cocoa (iTunes link) podcast, have a new podcast for Cocoa developers. This new podcast is called the Mac Developer Roundtable. As you can tell from the name, the podcast will feature several developers talking about the current podcast subject matter.

The first episode of Mac Developer Roundtable is currently available on iTunes here. The host is Steve Scott (Scotty) from the Mac Developer Network. This weeks guests include Daniel Jalkut, Marcus Zarra, Uli Kusterer and Faser Spiers. Episode one topics include overall thoughts on Leopard, localization, Xcode 3, favorite developer features of Leopard, and Carbon in OS X. If you develop for OS X or are remotely interested in the geeky innards of OS X, you might want to give it a listen.

[Via Red Sweater]

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