LSARC/2009/250 - Firefox 3.0.x on Solaris 10

[Brian Cameron]

I know that the JavaFX team needs GStreamer 0.10 supported on Solaris
10.  GStreamer 0.10 depends on GLib 2.12 or newer.  Do we plan to
integrate GLib 2.12 or newer as a part of the Firefox update?  Could
you provide more specific information about what exact versions of
the dependencies you intend to integrate for Firefox?  I do not think
/opt/firefox is a good private directory to place libraries that should
be shared across multiple projects like JavaFX and Firefox.  Could
we put them somewhere more general?

If the Desktop team is going to the bother to add these libraries for
Firefox, then could we coordinate with the JavaFX team so that
GStreamer 0.10 could also be added in a way that both projects can
use these updated libraries?

Will Solaris 10 support both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, or will Firefox
2 be removed when Firefox 3 is added?  Shouldn't there be some doc
impact.  I'd think that there would be some manpage work to mention
in section 4.6.

How does user configuration migrate from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3?  Does
Firefox work well for users who use a shared $HOME directory on systems
that may be using different versions of Firefox?

Brian


> I am sponsoring this fast track for Partha Susarla from Sustaining in
> India. The case directory contains this proposal in the form of the
> 1-pager. The timer is set for April 28th, 2009.
>
> This project proposes to back port Firefox 3.0.x from Nevada to a
> Solaris 10 Update release which is a Patch release of Solaris. Because
> of build and runtime requirements for Firefox 3.0.x several Gnome
> libraries must also be back ported. These libraries are declared
> Project Private and are install along with Firefox 3.0.x in
> /opt/firefox3.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John