This directory contains Solaris builds of the Firefox 1.5.0.5, which are contributed by SUN Desktop Beijing Team. If you have any problem with these builds, please send email to mozorg-builds@sun.com Installation: ------------- * Tarball format Extract the tarball to a proper location[1] $ bzip2 -dc .tar.bz2 | tar -xf - [1]: Make sure there is no firefox directory there before you extract the tarball, it's not recommended to just overwrite the old firefox directory. * Pkgadd format 1, First uncompress the zip file $ bzip2 -d .bz2 You will get a package datastream file named 2, Install the package as root # pkgadd -d ./ The default install location would be /opt/sfw/lib/firefox To Enable Java: --------------- cd /path/to//plugins ln -s /path/to//libjavaplugin_oji.so On Solaris 10, Java plugin is probably located at /usr/java/jre/plugin//ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so On Solaris 8/9, it's probably located at /usr/j2se/jre/plugin//ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so To Enable Flash/Shockwave: -------------------------- 1, Download the Flash/Shockwave plugin from http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Intel&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4&P5_Language=English 2, Extract the tarball and place the files under /path/to//plugins To Run The Application: ----------------------- a, Execute the application by specifying the absolute path $ /path/to//firefox b, Add to your PATH and execute "firefox" c, Add the desktop file and start from menu(pkgadd format only) # cat >/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop</firefox TryExec=/path/to//firefox Icon=/path/to//icons/mozicon50.xpm X-GNOME-DocPath= Terminal=false Name=Firefox GenericName=Firefox Comment=Firefox Categories=Application;Network; EOF Troubleshooting: ---------------- * For Solaris 8 builds, you need to install GTK 1.2 library. You can get the GTK 1.2 libraries from sun.com or sunfreeware.com * Also for Solaris 8 builds, you may need to install some required patches. For example, if you encounter the following error, ld.so.1: ./firefox-bin: fatal: relocation error: file ./firefox-bin: symbol fmod: referenced symbol not found. You probably have to install Math Library(libm) patch, Solaris 5.8 sparc: 111721 Solaris 5.9 sparc: 111722 Solaris 5.8 i386 : 112757 Solaris 5.9 i386 : 111728 You might have more than one libm library installed on your system, please make sure that you are using the one under /usr/lib. * If you could not start up the application or encounter some unexpected crash, try to do this, 1, Rename the profile directory("$HOME/.mozilla" for Mozilla suite, "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox" for Firefox and "$HOME/.thunderbird" for Thunderbird) 2, Start up the application without importing anything Build Configuration: -------------------- * Firefox and Mozilla suite Start up Mozilla/Firefox that you just installed and type "about:buildconfig" in the URL field, and then you would see all the build configurations used for this build. * Thunderbird Extract "buildconfig.html" from /chrome/toolkit.jar, which records all the build configure information of this build. $ jar xf /path/to//chrome/toolkit.jar \ content/global/buildconfig.html