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From: Martin Paul on 14 Apr 2010 05:31
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.

Is there any chance that we will get a modern version of firefox from
Oracle/Sun in the form of a patch or official packages, or at least in
the next HW release/update?

I know that there is a version for Solaris available via mozilla.org,
but I'd have to take care of testing, plugin installation and
configuration and think about whether replacing /usr/bin/firefox is a
good idea.

mp.
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From: Ian Collins on 14 Apr 2010 05:41
On 04/14/10 09:31 PM, Martin Paul 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.
>
> Is there any chance that we will get a modern version of firefox from
> Oracle/Sun in the form of a patch or official packages, or at least in
> the next HW release/update?
>
> I know that there is a version for Solaris available via mozilla.org,
> but I'd have to take care of testing, plugin installation and
> configuration and think about whether replacing /usr/bin/firefox is a
> good idea.

The versions you can get from here:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/development

Are built by Sun.

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Ian Collins
From: Thomas Maier-Komor on 14 Apr 2010 06:43
On 14.04.2010 11:31, Martin Paul 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.
>
> Is there any chance that we will get a modern version of firefox from
> Oracle/Sun in the form of a patch or official packages, or at least in
> the next HW release/update?
>
> I know that there is a version for Solaris available via mozilla.org,
> but I'd have to take care of testing, plugin installation and
> configuration and think about whether replacing /usr/bin/firefox is a
> good idea.
>
> mp.

Why don't you use the contributed Firefox package on the Mozilla site?
This supplied by Oracle. Just select 'Release Notes' -> 'Contributed
builds' -> 'FTP site', and then you can download either a tarball or a
pkg file.

There are spearate files for x86 and sparc, as well as opensolars and
solaris 10. Just pick your flavor.

It comes with all its dependencies and will be installed in /opt/sfw
when installed as a package with pkgadd.

HTH,
Thomas
From: Martin Paul on 14 Apr 2010 09:25
Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
> Why don't you use the contributed Firefox package on the Mozilla site?

I'd prefer "officially supported and integrated into Solaris 10" to just
"contributed". I know about (and have used in the past) the builds
contributed by the Sun Beijing team, and I'll end up using them anyway,
but here's just one example of the issues I hit:

The contributed version comes with no plugins. The README says to link
libnpjp2.so for the Java plugin - this doesn't work with JDK 1.5, which
is the most recent version of the JDK coming with Solaris 10. Some
investigation shows that there's a new plugin interface for JDK 1.6 and
Firefox 3.x. So if I want the Java plugin, I need to add JDK 1.6 as well.

The README also tells me the URL to download the flash player plugin, to
be extracted to "/path/to/<install location>/plugins". Me thinks that I
already have a copy of this plugin in Solaris 10, which is properly
maintained via patches. Adding a local copy, which I have to maintain
manually, doesn't appeal to me. After looking at the firefox script from
the bundled version, I quickly find out that modifying this script for
the Beijing version, too, is a much better solution. Adding a setting
for MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (pointing at /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla/plugins) to
/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/firefox gives me immediate access to the
flash/pdf/realplay plugins.

I've done these things for years when using self-compiled mozilla
binaries, or those from the Beijing team, so I was really happy when Sun
added these apps to Solaris, as I did not have to find and fix these
things ..

Martin.
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PCA | Analyze, download and install patches for Solaris
| http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
From: Chris Cox on 14 Apr 2010 09:39
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?
:-)


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