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.
-- 
SysAdmin | Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna
      PCA | Analyze, download and install patches for Solaris
          | http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/

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.

-- 
Ian Collins

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

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.
-- 
SysAdmin | Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna
      PCA | Analyze, download and install patches for Solaris
          | http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/

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?
:-)

On Apr 14, 9:39=A0am, Chris Cox <chrisnc...@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? =A0Is that an engineer at Oracle?
> :-)

Isn't that the Son of Larry?

{:-\

In article <4bc58b76$0$11610$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at>,
Martin Paul  <map@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@acm.org

John D Groenveld <groenvel@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

In article <7Enxn.33118$kj3.18170@newsfe08.iad>,
Colin B. <cbigam@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@acm.org