Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:47 -0400, Gary A. Ross wrote: > Browsers are only a portion of the overall issue. Selecting a browser > that is used across the entire platform is good thing. The real gotcha > is the plug ins. I use Firefox as my browser of choice, and I am very > happy with it. It's stable for me, and works well, but it's difficult to > look at pages that have Shockwave, Flash, or pdf plugins. > > Designing something to use, like a browser is easy, it's getting other > SOFTWARE vendors and communities to support you that's hard. Until Open > Solaris (or Solaris in general, for that matter), can get a number of > desktop ISV's to port to Solaris, it will be just another "cool demo", > and go nowhere else. > > Find a standard, and get support behind it. That's the way to move forward.
Absolutely, and that standard really seems to be a 'market standard' rather than a technical one right now. From my perspective, Firefox is just that, and I'm pretty sure the plugin situation will improve over time as the numbers behind Solaris increase. FWIW, I think people need to realize that Firefox can only currently considered an unsupported technology preview in Solaris, especially so if you've downloaded the recent Vermillion builds that Bart mentioned. There hasn't been a significant QA effort as yet on many of these components, Firefox included, but that's likely to ramp up closer to Nevada integration. If you see crashes, *please* log them in bugs.opensolaris.org - that's one of the few ways you can individually help if you'd like to see a more stable application. Glynn
