Hi James: Thanks for your detail info, yes, only Microsoft has shipped 64bit IE browser in their 64bit OS, and on Linux OS, there is 64bit Firefox 3.0 browser available in some flavor, such as Open SuSE, etc, but it is not formally supported by Mozilla org yet. I am working on Java deployment team in Sun and we get many request to ask Sun to support Java plugin in 64bit browser, I am currently working on Window and Linux platform, and noticed there is no official 64bit Firefox 3.0 browser available in Solaris yet, we would love to support all three platforms for 64bit Java plugin, but it looks like we can't get there yet because no plan for 64bit browser support on Solaris.
Dennis James Cornell wrote: > 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 > <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 > <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto:desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080625/6a90f19c/attachment.html>
