Here comes the tarball builds for Firefox 3.0 on Solaris 10:
x86: 
http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/firefox-3.0-en-US-solaris-10-fcs-i386.tar.bz2
SPARC: 
http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/firefox-3.0-en-US-solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2

Cheers,
-Alfred

Alfred Peng wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Here comes the first version of Firefox 3.0 build for Solaris 10 x86:
> http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/firefox-3.0-en-US-solaris-10-i386-pkg.bz2,
> with *DTrace* enabled.
>
> The file contains the following packages besides Firefox 3.0:
> glib 2.14.4
> atk 1.20.0
> cairo 1.4.12
> pango 1.18.3
> gtk 2.12.3
> dbus 1.1.20
> dbus-glib 0.74
>
> The list above should be the minimal set of libraries that Firefox 3.0
> depends on. After tweaking with the corresponding JDS specs from the
> GNOME 2.20 branch and CBE, they were built on "Solaris 10 5/08
> s10x_u5wos_10 X86" successfully with SunStudio 12 and CBE 1.6. To follow
> the contributed Firefox package convention, all the packages will be
> installed to /opt/sfw directory.
>
> If you're interested, please download it to a local place, bunzip and
> pkgadd it. Run "/opt/sfw/bin/firefox" should be fine(or add /opt/sfw/bin
> to your PATH). No extra LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting is needed.
>
> It works on my "Solaris 10 5/08 s10x_u5wos_10 X86" box here. And I'd
> recommend to upgrade to a newer Solaris 10 update version. It might not
> work with some old ones. Most of the
> features(http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/) should
> be available. Also tried several extensions and flash plugin, no problem
> shows up for me until now.
>
> Well, I can't promise it's a stable enough build. So you might want to
> create a new profile to try it: /opt/sfw/bin/firefox --no-remote -P
>
> Any problem, please just raise it up.
>
> Cheers,
> -Alfred
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