Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-24 Thread ken mays via openindiana-discuss
Jay, Newer versions of Firefox usually provided security and feature improvements:https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ As for closed-source providers, the question is relative to people's use of things like pre-compiled softwareand GMO/processed food. You may use Flash, but do you h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-24 Thread Peter Tribble
> I have 31.8.0esr in Tribblix, which works fine for most things. Anything >> else >> I run 40.whatever under Wine, which actually does a very good job. >> > > Hello. > Does FF plugins work for you (IcedTea/Flash)? Is it gcc-compiled? > I'm just using the Oracle builds. (Actually, the S10 build wh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-24 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > Hello. > > j...@m5.chicago.il.us писал 24.08.2015 04:43: > >> >> >> I am running Solaris 11.2 on one of my computers, the latest version >> of Solaris available for download from Oracle (at least, as of a month >> ago, when I downloaded

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-23 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. j...@m5.chicago.il.us писал 24.08.2015 04:43: ken mays wrote on Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:14:15 + (UTC): I am running Solaris 11.2 on one of my computers, the latest version of Solaris available for download from Oracle (at least, as of a month ago, when I downloaded and installed it).

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-23 Thread Jerry Kemp
Sorry for bottom posting here but it seems appropriate here. On 08/23/15 08:43 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: And, speaking of OpenSXCE (from which one can apparently obtain a working version of Firefox 37) -- there was a huge amount of discussion on this mailing list a while back about Open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/23/15 06:43 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: I am running Solaris 11.2 on one of my computers, the latest version of Solaris available for download from Oracle (at least, as of a month ago, when I downloaded and installed it). That's the latest stable release available, though 11.3 beta w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-23 Thread jay
ken mays wrote on Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:14:15 + (UTC): > > Also, after what Peter said, here are the current porting efforts of > the newer Firefox releases to OI-hipster: > > 1. Firefox 40.0 - Reviewed yesterday for porting. Passed all >dependency checks. In progress. Porting efforts base