One correction below: Alfred Peng wrote: > Hi guys, > > As you might know, we're coming close to the next OpenSolaris 2009.06 > release. The original plan is to deliver Firefox 3.1 into this > release, but the schedule from Mozilla community was delayed. So > instead, we might deliver Firefox 3.1b3 which is about to release in > the Mozilla community. > > The QAs are testing Firefox 3.1b3 on OpenSolaris now. Here I'd also > like to ask helps from the desktop community. If you're running > OpenSolaris, please join us to test this version for Firefox. There is > *NO* extra effort. Just be an end user and use it on your OpenSolaris > boxes. > > Please follow the instructions below to install Firefox 3.1b3: > 1. Get the corresponding build from > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/3.1b3-candidates/build1/ > > <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/3.1b3-candidates/build1/>. > > > 2. Unpack the build. > % bunzip firefox-3.1b3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2. It'll give you > three packages: SUNWfirefox SUNWfirefox-devel SUNWfirefox-bookmark > 3a. For OpenSolaris users who are with the 2009.06 development build > b118, you'll have to uninstall the following packages first and > install the above three packages. It works ok for my own box. Please > note this will probably break something. > % pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWipkg-gui SUNWgnome-python-extras > SUNWfirefox-bookmark SUNWfirefox > % pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWfirefox SUNWfirefox-devel SUNWfirefox-bookmark > 3b. For OpenSolaris users who are with the original 2008.11 release: > % pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWfirefox > % pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWfirefox SUNWfirefox-devel SUNWfirefox-bookmark I've transferred the packages to data stream. So please run the command below to install the packages after unpacking. % pfexec pkgadd -d firefox-3.1b3.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg
Thanks, -Alfred > 3c. For Solaris Nevada users, you'll have to pkgrm the packages and > then pkgadd the new ones. The default start page is broken as it > points to a local file exists only on OpenSolaris. > > For flash plugins, the latest release 10.0.22.87 is recommended: > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ <http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/>. > > Please restart Firefox to make sure the 3.1b3 release is taken: > "Help"->"About Mozilla Firefox". > > Any problem or feedback for this build will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Alfred > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
