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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Glory of glories, LogMeIn now works on the MacBook Pro (and most likely other Intel-based Macs, though not tested by us)! With the latest version of Java, Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 (download), you can now finally log into Windows machines remotely via your Firefox web browser. In fact, it works on the latest versions of Safari and Camino, too. It unfortunately does not work on the latest beta of Flock. All three working browsers ask you to okay the certificate with every log in and only Safari shows the Java animation before connection to the remote host is completed.
Once logged in, the Windows host is quite responsive. I found no more lag of mouse-to-screen movement or refresh rate than I have seen in the Windows version of Firefox. The Java version, is a bit slower than the ActiveX version used in Internet Explorer, however. SvenOnTech also noticed that Camino seemed to load the My Computers page and the actual hosts desktop faster than either its brethren Firefox or Safari.
It appears Apple have finally fixed the most annoying Java bug on the Intel platform and you can now finally remotely control Windows hosts natively within OS X on an Intel box!