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From: ChrisS on 14 Apr 2010 13:08
On Apr 14, 9:39 am, Chris Cox <chrisnc...(a)endlessnow.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 21:41 +1200, Ian Collins wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > The versions you can get from here:
>
> >http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/development
>
> > Are built by Sun.
>
> Who's Sun?  Is that an engineer at Oracle?
> :-)

Isn't that the Son of Larry?

{:-\
From: John D Groenveld on 14 Apr 2010 13:15
In article <4bc58b76$0$11610$3b214f66(a)usenet.univie.ac.at>,
Martin Paul <map(a)par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>On the most recent version of Solaris 10 with the current patch for
>firefox installed, I have version 2.0.0.19 of the browser. Recently, I'm
> being told by some websites (e.g. youtube) that my browser is not
>supported anymore.

Oracle uses Adobe Flash for Metalink. (Un)fortunately Adobe is
still supporting Firefox 2.x so we don't have that leverage.
<URL:http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/>
<URL:https://support.oracle.com/CSP/ui/flash.html>


Is there an RFE to backport firefox v3 to a future Solaris 10
update?

Maybe there's some other customers that can help build the
business case for backporting a more recent SUNWfirefox to
Solaris 10.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: Colin B. on 14 Apr 2010 14:16
John D Groenveld <groenvel(a)cse.psu.edu> wrote:

> Is there an RFE to backport firefox v3 to a future Solaris 10
> update?

I'm more curious about whether there will be a future Solaris 10 update
at all, firefox notwithstanding. I assume that Firefox3 will be backported
about as soon as they move beyond Gnome 2.6, i.e. never.

In the meantime, I'm running Firefox 3.6.3, courtesy of mozilla.com. Since
it now comes up on their main page, I'm pretending they sort-of support
it. At any rate, it works fine--yeah, the plugins are a bit of a hassle
each time I upgrade, but really not that big of a deal.

Colin

From: John D Groenveld on 14 Apr 2010 14:59
In article <7Enxn.33118$kj3.18170(a)newsfe08.iad>,
Colin B. <cbigam(a)somewhereelse.shaw.ca> wrote:
>I'm more curious about whether there will be a future Solaris 10 update

Indiana isn't ready to replace Solaris 10 and Solaris 10 updates will
be required for the upcoming systems.

>at all, firefox notwithstanding. I assume that Firefox3 will be backported
>about as soon as they move beyond Gnome 2.6, i.e. never.

Oracle can drop the more modern versions in /usr/sfw/lib or similar.

>In the meantime, I'm running Firefox 3.6.3, courtesy of mozilla.com. Since
>it now comes up on their main page, I'm pretending they sort-of support

I use this URL to get Oracle's SFWfirefox packages for S10 and Indiana.
<URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/>

>it. At any rate, it works fine--yeah, the plugins are a bit of a hassle
>each time I upgrade, but really not that big of a deal.

I symbolically link the Flash and JDK 6 plugins from
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins and /usr/java/jre/lib/i386/ to /opt/sfw.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
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