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Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install process

1:45 P.M. With tomorrow's blog safely filed, time to experiment with the new firefox.
Written by Paul Murphy, Contributor

1:45 P.M. With tomorrow's blog safely filed, time to experiment with the new firefox.

rt % pkg-get -U
... catalog updated)
rt % pkg-get -i firefox
y
y
y
... hit a bunch more of these
y

2:03 Came back after coffee
rt % cd /opt/csw/mozilla/lib/
rt % ln -s /opt/csw/mozilla/firefox/lib/plugins sparc
rt % exit; exit
% unalias ns7
% alias ns7 /opt/csw/mozilla/firefox/bin/firefox
% ns7

Agreed to import settings from Mozilla 1.7

Everything works - nice, clean, new browser..

Gee, that was tough.

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