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++ The release of Apple Silicon-based Macs at the end of last year + generated a flurry of news coverage and some surprises at the + machine’s performance. This post details some background + information on the experience of porting Firefox to run natively + on these CPUs. +
++ We’ll start with some background on the Mac transition and give an + overview of Firefox internals that needed to know about the new + architecture, before moving on to the concept of Universal + Binaries. +
++ We’ll then explain how DRM/EME works on the new platform, talk + about our experience with macOS Big Sur, and discuss various + updater problems we had to deal with. We’ll conclude with the + release and an overview of various other improvements that are in + the pipeline. +
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