There's no reason for a 64-bit browser. No browser except Internet Explorer is shipped and supported by the vendor. For compatibility, plugin wrappers are not worth the problems. Modified versions of Firefox for Linux are shipped by the distributer. Opera is available as 64-bit but I doubt it's actually running as just that, it's mainly for integration purposes that they provide it. Performance impact for using compatibility layers is about 2%, there's no real reason to have to maintain both at the moment. Any of the mirrors listed on Mozilla mirrors should have the release, though only about 3/4 have the contrib subdirectory.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/ for OpenSolaris http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/ for Solaris 10 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit http://forums.amd.com/devblog/blogpost.cfm?threadid=93648&catid=317 James On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dennis Gu <Dennis.Gu at sun.com> wrote: > Hi James: > > Thanks for your info, is this a 32bit Firefox 3 or 64bit Firefox 3? What is > the URL to point to that mozilla mirror? > > Dennis > > > James Cornell wrote: > > It has been available for a while now on OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 packages > were released shortly after Firefox 3 release for Solaris 10. Due to > Solaris 10's age packages for dependent components are included. > > Check out contrib on mozilla mirror. > /pub/mozilla/firefox/releases/3/contrib > > James > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Dennis Gu <Dennis.Gu at sun.com> wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I just want to know if we have 64bit browser running on Solaris-sparc, >> with Firefox 3 availabe on window now, there is 64bit Firefox 3 browser >> running on Linux OS, are we going to have 64bit Firefox 3 on Solaris soon? >> anyone has build it by themself and any plan to support it? thanks for any >> info. >> >> Dennis >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080624/f7f49a98/attachment.html>
