This directory contains Solaris builds of Firefox 31.8.

0 ESR,
which are contributed by Oracle Solaris Desktop Beijing Team.
If you have any problem with these builds, please send email to
ginnchen at gmail dot com

Installation:
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* Tarball format

Extract the tarball to a proper location[1]

$ bzip2 -dc <tarball basename>.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 <zip file basename>.bz2
You will get a package datastream file named <zip file basename>

2, Install the package as root

# pkgadd -d ./<zip file basename>
The default install location would be /opt/sfw/lib/firefox

To Enable Java:
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cd /path/to/<install location>/plugins
ln -s /path/to/<jave home>/lib/<sparc|i386>/libnpjp2.so

To Enable Flash Player:

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1, Download the Flash Player plugin from
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

2, Extract the tarball and place the files under

/path/to/<install location>/plugins

To Run The Application:

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a, Execute the application by specifying the absolute path
$ /path/to/<install location>/firefox

b, Add <install location> to your PATH and execute "firefox"

c, Add the desktop file and start from menu(pkgadd format only)
# cat >/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop<<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=/path/to/<install location>/firefox
TryExec=/path/to/<install location>/firefox
Icon=/path/to/<install location>/icons/mozicon50.xpm
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Terminal=false
Name=firefox
GenericName=firefox
Comment=firefox
Categories=Application;Network;
EOF

Troubleshooting:
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* 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

* For Solaris 10 users, if you have font display problems or crashes with some
pages.
Please apply the fontconfig and Freetype patch.
#138353, #119813 (x86)
#138352, #119812 (SPARC)

You can download them at http://sunsolve.sun.com

Build Configuration:
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* 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 <install location>/chrome/toolkit.jar,

which records all the build configure information of this build.
$ jar xf /path/to/<install location>/chrome/toolkit.jar \
content/global/buildconfig.html