From: Tim Chipman (chipman@ecopiabio.com)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 10:31:40 EST
Many thanks to Greg Marsh & Anders Nordby for their replies to my query.
With their help, I was able to locate some pre-cooked binaries for Sparc
platform:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/releases/0.5
http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/download/#SUN+Sparc+software
These work very well, but with the wrinkle (for me - anyhow) - when I
tried to configure the Java Plugin (in the same manner as
phoenix/Linux-X86 or Mozilla/(linux-X86 OR SolarisSparc OR SolarisX86)
-- then phoenix tanks when trying to startup, presenting the error:
"INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?"
This is unfortunate for me since JVM functionality is a core requirement
for the "web browser of choice" here. Sigh. Possibly this issue will be
resolved in the future(?), since Phoenix is still "pre-release" right now.
Note that I haven't been able to locate pre-cooked phoenix binaries for
Solaris-X86.
At the moment, I'm probably looking towards deployment of a linux-based
X86 app server to provide web browser (phoenix or mozilla) and
OpenOffice to our SunRay users. (Originally I had been hoping to go with
Solaris8-X86 app server, but this seems impossible right now). Dual
athlons @ 2000mhz seems to be plenty of horsepower for this sort of
platform / requirement, and it's working great. Mozilla & Phoenix are
*far* more stable than the old netscape 4.7X (especially for us - where
users have many java applets for intranet data access).
I hope this info is of some use to others out there in the "Solaris Web
Browser World".
--Tim Chipman
==ORIGINAL POSTING FOLLOWS==
> Hi all,
>
> I'm curious if anyone has / knows a download location for a good
> functional build of the Phoenix web browser [version 0.5 - most
> current - ideally ] to run on Solaris (Sparc and / or X86 platform).
>
> ( learn about phoenix @ url,
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html )
>
>
> Pre-cooked binaries are available for LinuxX86/Windows32/OS2, and
> google searches for Solaris builds by 3rd parties yield few hits, all
> of which are non-active web pages currently.
>
> (I'm interested in this because Phoenix has the same codebase as
> Mozilla, but is trimmed down to include only web browsing functionality,
> and is optimized for fast rendering, smaller memory footprint, etc etc
> -- ie, potentially of significant interest, given the `extreme joy' I
> have with running either obselete Netscape 4.7 lineage on old 400mhz
> UltraSparcII based systems OR mozilla/netscape 6-7, which has
> significantly heavier footprint for CPU/memory).
>
> As always, I'll summarize back to the list. Thanks!
>
>
> Tim Chipman
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