I downloaded firefox-12 tar; no README; do what now?

David Combs

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May 10, 2012, 2:16:34 AM5/10/12

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I downloaded the firefox for solaris sparc, and bunzip2'ed it. Tar file
has no README.

So, what do I do? Just xvf it somewhere? Where? Then what?

THANKS!

David

Frank Langelage

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May 10, 2012, 5:45:09 AM5/10/12

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Let me tell you how I handle this:
I created a directory /opt/mozilla.
Extract the tar file with tar xvf firefox.....tar here.
Then I rename the firefox directory to include the version no
mv firefox firefox-12.0.0
and create a symbolic link
ln -s firefox-12.0.0 firefox-12.0.x

In my user home directory under Desktop I have a file Firefox_12.desktop
with this content:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x/firefox
TryExec=/opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x/firefox
Icon=/opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x/icons/mozicon128.png
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Terminal=false
Name=Firefox 12
GenericName=Firefox 12
Comment=Firefox 12
Categories=Application;Network;

This shows me the "Firefox 12" icon on my desktop to start the browser.

David Combs

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May 10, 2012, 4:37:02 PM5/10/12

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In article <a11h16...@mid.individual.net>,

Thanks much!

Will no give it a try.

David

Philip Brown

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May 10, 2012, 6:16:44 PM5/10/12

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On Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:45:09 AM UTC-7, Frank Langelage wrote:
> On 10.05.12 08:16, David Combs wrote:
> > I downloaded the firefox for solaris sparc, and bunzip2'ed it. Tar file
> > has no README.
> >
> > So, what do I do? Just xvf it somewhere? Where? Then what?
> >
> > THANKS!
>
> Let me tell you how I handle this:
> I created a directory /opt/mozilla.
>

hi Frank,

a related question:

The /opt/sfw "contributed" versions of firefox (version 8 and version 9) for sparc, I found significantly slower than prior versions.
Have you noticed whether this version 12 is also slow, or whether it's about the same speed as the one that ships with Solaris?

David Combs

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May 11, 2012, 7:50:58 AM5/11/12

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In article <joh8te$pdo$1...@reader1.panix.com>,

OK, I'm back. Did everything you said, but no icon.

BUT NOTE: I'm using CDE, not gnome.

Plus, after xvf'ing that large tar file, I can see
nothing resembling something that I can actually RUN.

Here's a pre-prepared post, a bit wordy, yes, but I
think it has everything.

Hey, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

=========================================

[] 10may12 firefox-12:

| comp.unix.solaris #594472 (0 + 214 more) (1)--[1]
| From: Frank Langelage <fr...@lafr.de>
| [1] Re: I downloaded firefox-12 tar; no README; do what now?
| Date: Thu May 10 05:45:09 EDT 2012
| Lines: 33
|
...

Ok, I've done all that.

QUESTION: What's the symlink for?

And I also created, in /export/home/dkc, the file Firefox_12.desktop, just
like you told me to:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x/firefox
TryExec=/opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x/firefox
Icon=/opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x/icons/mozicon128.png
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Terminal=false
Name=Firefox 12
GenericName=Firefox 12
Comment=Firefox 12
Categories=Application;Network;

lifted straight from your instructions:

And I did this two -- just lifted your lines and stuck
them as-is into MY desktop-dir:

/export/home/dkc/Desktop/Firefox_12.desktop

(NOTE: I am using CDE!)

| This shows me the "Firefox 12" icon on my desktop to start the browser.

| End of article 594472 (of 594478) -- what next? [npq]

Then, I got (by modifying a "Style" property) CDE to want
to restart itself, so I answered "yes" to that.

OOPS!: no new icon showed up.

QUESTION: How do I RUN the thing? Where's the executable?

Here's the tar tvf:

> tar tvf firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar
drwxr-xr-x 199275/1 0 Apr 23 11:46 2012 firefox/
drwxr-xr-x 199275/1 0 Apr 23 11:44 2012 firefox/chrome/
drwxr-xr-x 199275/1 0 Apr 23 11:42 2012 firefox/chrome/icons/
drwxr-xr-x 199275/1 0 Apr 23 11:42 2012 firefox/chrome/icons/default/
-rw-r--r-- 199275/1 972 Apr 23 11:42 2012 firefox/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
>

I sure don't see any .../bin/... there.

Here's all the files under /opt/mozilla/

> du -a /opt/mozilla/
0 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.x
105430 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar
1 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.0/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
3 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.0/chrome/icons/default
4 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.0/chrome/icons
6 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.0/chrome
7 /opt/mozilla/firefox-12.0.0
105440 /opt/mozilla

Nothing there looks like an executable.

FYI, here's /opt:

/opt:
total 42
drwxr-xr-x 12 root bin 12 May 10 23:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 91 Dec 28 00:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 3 Jun 16 2009 SUNWits
drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 5 Jun 16 2009 SUNWmlib
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 5 Jun 16 2009 SUNWrtvc
drwxr-xr-x 9 root bin 9 Jul 2 2009 SUNWspci3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 3 Jul 2 2009 SUNWspvn3
drwxr-xr-x 30 root bin 33 Jul 10 2009 csw
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 5 May 10 23:42 mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 12 Jun 17 2009 patch
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 13 Jun 16 2009 staroffice8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Jun 17 2009 studio

QUESTION: So, again, how do I run this new firefox? (No icon, so I have to do
it "by hand" -- all I need to know is where the binary is.)

THANK YOU!

David

===================================

Remember, I'm running CDE as my gui.

David

Frank Langelage

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May 11, 2012, 8:50:43 AM5/11/12

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> OK, I'm back. Did everything you said, but no icon.
> BUT NOTE: I'm using CDE, not gnome.

I used CDE in former times but forgot about how to create an icon there.

> Plus, after xvf'ing that large tar file, I can see
> nothing resembling something that I can actually RUN.

In the extracted firefox folder or the renamed one there is a file
called firefox. This is called from my desktop icon (see Exec).
This then calls run-mozilla.sh and this finally starts the binary
firefox-bin.

> QUESTION: What's the symlink for?

Just to simply installation of patches.
I extract the new tar file, rename it, and redirect the symlink to the
new folder. I keep the old version for now.
I do not have to touch the icon then, because it uses the symlink.
I can try the new version and, if everything is fine, remove the old
folder afterwards.

> QUESTION: So, again, how do I run this new firefox? (No icon, so I have to do
> it "by hand" -- all I need to know is where the binary is.)

Use your preferred search engine for this question.
You might find e.g.
http://zinser.no-ip.info/www/eng/vms/qaa/cde_action.htmlx to help you.

John D Groenveld

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May 11, 2012, 8:52:08 AM5/11/12

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In article <jofmg2$qpp$1...@panix1.panix.com>,

David Combs <dkc...@panix.com> wrote:
>I downloaded the firefox for solaris sparc, and bunzip2'ed it. Tar file
>has no README.

What is the MD5 checksum for what you downloaded?
<URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/12.0/contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2>
$ /usr/sfw/bin/openssl md5 firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2

>So, what do I do? Just xvf it somewhere? Where? Then what?

$ bzip2 -dc firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2|tar xf -
$ firefox/firefox

John
groe...@acm.org

Philip Brown

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May 11, 2012, 5:38:12 PM5/11/12

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On Friday, May 11, 2012 5:52:08 AM UTC-7, John D Groenveld wrote:
>
> What is the MD5 checksum for what you downloaded?
> <URL:http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/12.0/contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2>
> $ /usr/sfw/bin/openssl md5 firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2
>
> >So, what do I do? Just xvf it somewhere? Where? Then what?
>
> $ bzip2 -dc firefox-12.0.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.tar.bz2|tar xf -
> $ firefox/firefox
>

Encouraged by the simplicity of this, vs prior contributed firefox biulds (where you had to also pkgadd "updated" versions of graphics libraries), I also gave this one a shot.
WoW! it's at a good speed! At least as good as the /bin/firefox binary.(and using the regular solaris 10 libpango type libraries, which is probably half the reason why)

In a semi-unrelated note: I wanted to share with folks that yes, this version does work with java. Unlike earlier firefox versions where one uses libjavaplugin.so, this one uses
/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/sparc/libnpjp2.so

I'd like to thank whoever did this build. But there's no README. shame...

John D Groenveld

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May 14, 2012, 9:29:53 PM5/14/12

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In article <27471317.17.1336772292085.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbq5>,

Philip Brown <ph...@bolthole.com> wrote:
>I'd like to thank whoever did this build. But there's no README. shame...

desktop...@opensolaris.org
<URL:http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/development>

John
groe...@acm.org

Frank Langelage

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May 15, 2012, 6:27:40 AM5/15/12

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> The /opt/sfw "contributed" versions of firefox (version 8 and version 9) for sparc, I found significantly slower than prior versions.
> Have you noticed whether this version 12 is also slow, or whether it's about the same speed as the one that ships with Solaris?

I no longer have them installed, so I cannot compare them with the
current version.
But from the old versions to the current 12.0 there where definitely
some with poor performance in-between. But my subjective feeling is,
that the performance has improved with latest versions.
With the speed of the current version I'm quite happy.
Slow are those sites with a lot of graphics, flash, etc.

FYI: I own a Sun Blade 2000 with 2 x 1.2 GHz US-III+ and XVR-500.