Firefox 52 on Solaris 10

Hank

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Dec 26, 2018, 12:27:55 AM12/26/18

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I'm trying to get Firefox 52 running on a Solaris 10 update 11 system.
This is the i386 version on a Sun Ultra 20M2.

The file I downloaded is:
firefox-52.0.2esr.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386.tar.bz2

The browser comes up and will load duckduckgo.com. But when I try to edit
preferences it crashes with this message:

Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=51.7078) [GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown
[Child 13399] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /export/home/mozilla/packages/BUILD/SFWfirefox/mozilla/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2143
[Child 13399] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /export/home/mozilla/packages/BUILD/SFWfirefox/mozilla/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2143

There is no SFWfirefox directory anywhere on the system, nor a
MessageChannel.cpp, so I'm concluding that there are missing files I need
to find somewhere to complete the installation.

Anybody else confronted this, and how do I fix it?

Hank

Gary R. Schmidt

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Dec 26, 2018, 8:09:08 AM12/26/18

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You want to un-conclude that - they are files that were *used* to build
that version of FireFox, they don't need to be on your system.

The last FireFox I was able to run on Solaris 10 x64 was
firefox-45.2.0esr.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386-pkg.bz2, which probably
doesn't help.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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Joerg

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Dec 29, 2018, 2:14:47 PM12/29/18

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Hi,

I have ESR 52.0 32-bit on a SunOS 5.10 Generic_147147-26 sun4u sparc
SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500

-> (2x US IIIi 64 bit)

"out of the box" -> mozilla ftp download running.

afaik it should run on x86-64 , too

try

ldd path/to/your/firefox

and check the result for errors......

br

Joerg

Am 26.12.18 14:04, schrieb Gary R. Schmidt:

Lucifer

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Jan 19, 2019, 5:11:16 AM1/19/19

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:04:13 +1100, "Gary R. Schmidt"
<grsc...@acm.org> wrote:

>On 26/12/2018 16:27, Hank wrote:
>> I'm trying to get Firefox 52 running on a Solaris 10 update 11 system.
>> This is the i386 version on a Sun Ultra 20M2.
>>
>> The file I downloaded is:
>> firefox-52.0.2esr.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386.tar.bz2
>>
>> The browser comes up and will load duckduckgo.com. But when I try to edit
>> preferences it crashes with this message:
>>
>> Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=51.7078) [GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown
>> [Child 13399] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /export/home/mozilla/packages/BUILD/SFWfirefox/mozilla/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2143
>> [Child 13399] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /export/home/mozilla/packages/BUILD/SFWfirefox/mozilla/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2143
>>
>> There is no SFWfirefox directory anywhere on the system, nor a
>> MessageChannel.cpp, so I'm concluding that there are missing files I need
>> to find somewhere to complete the installation.
>>
>> Anybody else confronted this, and how do I fix it?
>>
>You want to un-conclude that - they are files that were *used* to build
>that version of FireFox, they don't need to be on your system.
>
>The last FireFox I was able to run on Solaris 10 x64 was
>firefox-45.2.0esr.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386-pkg.bz2, which probably
>doesn't help.

Another thing that won't help is that I have Solaris 11.4 with
firefox 52 running on a Sunfire X2100 which has 4 GB RAM.

> Cheers,
> Gary B-)

Lucifer

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Jan 19, 2019, 5:25:17 AM1/19/19

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I want to be able to stream youtube on the Solaris machine
and Firefox 52 lets me do that. I use a USB audio card for
sound.

I would like to recommend the USB sound card. It works
under Solaris 11, Windows, and Mac OSX.
Its great for rack mount servers that don't have sound hardware.
And they are very cheap!

>> Cheers,
>> Gary B-)

JumpingJackFlash0001

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Dec 21, 2023, 9:20:04 PM12/21/23

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I was able to get Firefox 52 ESR to work on Solaris 10. The key is to change the user and group ownership. You will need the 'bunzip2' program preinstalled to unpack the file.

[root@System:/root/Download]# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0esr/contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-52.0esr.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386.tar.bz2
[root@System:/root/Download]# bunzip2 < firefox-52.0esr.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386.tar.bz2
... <Program is unpacked>
[root@System:/root/Download]# ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 8 199275 other 1024 Mar 29 2017 firefox
[root@System:/root/Download]# mv firefox /opt/csw
[root@System:/root/Download]# cd /opt/csw
[root@System:/opt/csw]# chown -R root firefox
[root@System:/opt/csw]# chgrp -R bin firefox
[root@System:/opt/csw]# ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 16 root bin 512 Dec 21 20:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 512 Dec 1 22:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 5120 Dec 20 21:57 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 1 23:55 doc -> share/doc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 512 Dec 20 21:24 etc
drwxr-xr-x 8 root bin 1024 Dec 21 20:59 firefox
drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Dec 20 21:57 include
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 1 23:55 info -> share/info
drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 6144 Dec 20 21:57 lib
drwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 512 Dec 20 00:00 libexec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 1 23:55 man -> share/man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Dec 20 00:00 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 15 root bin 512 Dec 20 21:57 share
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Dec 20 10:25 ssl
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Oct 1 23:54 var
[root@System:/opt/csw]#