We'll provide Firefox3 for S10U5.   But we need to take some time to 
solve  the dependency issue first.


James Cornell wrote:
> Not really gonna answer for Sun, but I doubt they will provide any new 
> major versions of such software until it is necessary. At the moment I 
> do not see Sun providing S10U5 users GTK+ 2.10.  Possibly U6 if there 
> is a U6.  If you can wait a little bit I can see if I can provide a 
> GTK+ 2.10 package to go along with Firefox 3 and package that as well 
> for S10U5.  I have S10 on my Ultra 20 M2 as well.
>
> James
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Michael E. Thomadakis wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> I was so eager to try out FF3.00 but ....
>>
>> I have seen JDS being stuck were it is for very long time ... I run 
>> stock
>> Sol10 on AMD64 h/w (Ultra 20M2 workstation) at work and I don't think 
>> I would
>> be installing opensolaris any time soon.
>>
>> So I will either have to build FF3.0 or I guess wait until Solaris 10 
>> upgrades
>> its own libraries ? Is the latter one a reasonable expectation?
>>
>>
>> thanks for the reply
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, James Cornell wrote:
>>
>> | Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:51:01 -0500
>> | From: James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com <mailto:sparcdr at gmail.com>>
>> | To: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu 
>> <mailto:miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>>
>> | Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org 
>> <mailto:desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org>
>> | Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox 3 on Solaris 10 distributions
>> |
>> | Nope, not yet.  With effort one can be built against GTK+ 2.10, but
>> | backporting if it is ever done will take time.
>> | James
>> |
>> | On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Michael E. Thomadakis <
>> | miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu <mailto:miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>> wrote:
>> |
>> | > Is there a mozilla firefox 3.00 binary that comes with all the 
>> necessary
>> | > libraries that the production Solaris10 is missing ? (GTK+ 2.10 for
>> | > instance?) The standard Solaris10 comes with GTK+2.4 ....
>> | >
>> | > Is there any plan to have Firefo3.00 run on the profuction 
>> Solaris10 ?
>> | >
>> | > thanks
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