On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> wrote:
> Hello. > > j...@m5.chicago.il.us писал 24.08.2015 04:43: > >> >> >> I am running Solaris 11.2 on one of my computers, the latest version >> of Solaris available for download from Oracle (at least, as of a month >> ago, when I downloaded and installed it). It comes with Firefox ESR >> 17.0.11. As far as I can tell, it works fine, I am completely >> satisfied with it. Why is it important to get Firefox 40.0 (this is >> not a rhetorical question, I want to know)? What I would really like >> to get -- not as a replacement for Firefox, but to supplement it -- is >> Chrome. How come I never see anyone discussing porting Chrome? It >> is, after all, an open-source product. Hasn't anyone else been >> interested in getting Chrome working on OpenSolaris-derived systems? >> > > I think that updating Firefox to more or less fresh version is much easier, > as there are at least Oracle patches and pkgsrc work. > Still quite a bit of work, though. I have 31.8.0esr in Tribblix, which works fine for most things. Anything else I run 40.whatever under Wine, which actually does a very good job. > As for porting Chromium, I'd estimate it would be a good thing to do, > but I fear we just lack men skilful and motivated enough to do it > (briefly: it's unreal). > It might be easier to get Webkit running properly - it certainly has been available on OpenSolaris in the past. That would open the door to a number of other browsers that use Webkit, as well as a number of applications that use it for rendering. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss