Browsers

Firefox is nice, but it's getting more and more heavy. So I tried and find other browsers…

Name	Platform	Text or GUI ?	Supports SSL	Supports Flash	Comments
Firefox	Solaris 10, Linux, Windows…	GUI	Yes	Yes	Getting heavy but good
Lobo	Java-based	GUI	?	?	Bad Layout. To run it: java -jar lobo.jar.

Firefox: Solaris 10 Installation Tips

The bzip2 actually contains several packages that all install in /opt/sfw (cairo, pango, firefox…). In my case, actually, I only need the firefox package. However, so far, I haven't managed to get firefox3 working if I only install that package and move it to /opt/csw. Consequently, I have installed all required packages in /opt/sfw. This is a pity because some libraries are duplicated (cairo, pango…) :-(

Firefox is installed in /opt/sfw:

/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/updater
/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/updater.ini
/usr/share/applications/firefox3.desktop
/opt/sfw/bin/firefox <symbolic link>

Launch /opt/sfw/bin/firefox & and Firefox3 starts !

Flash Player for Firefox

Solaris	OpenSolaris 2008.11	Debian	Ubuntu
Adobe	Yes. TODO

To install a system-wide Flash Player for Firefox on Solaris:

Unzip it (e.g. bzip2 -d flash_player_9_solaris_x86.tar.bz2)
Untar it and put both files flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins.
Restart firefox
Check a shockwave flash plugins is loaded in about:plugins
Check the plugin is okay with Adobe's online plugin test.

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