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Old 03-24-2012
Upgrade to Firefox 11 in OpenSolaris 11
Where can I find a .pkg file for Firefox 11 ?
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Old 03-24-2012
You can download it from this page: OpenSolaris Mozilla downloads, especially that one: OpenSolaris-i386
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Old 03-24-2012
Thank you for your reply. Tried that, found no .pkg file but download the tar file and found the executable was not current. I did find the free software site where they had a .pkg file. Downloaded it, installed it, am good to go.
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Old 03-24-2012
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Originally Posted by stansaraczewski
Thank you for your reply. Tried that, found no .pkg file but download the tar file and found the executable was not current.
The firefox 11 executable present in the tar file was built on March the 13th, i.e. 11 days ago. What do you mean "not current" ?
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Old 03-24-2012
Please post the free software site where you found the software.
Downloading from a random source can be a security problem.
jlliagre has posted the correct source.
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Old 03-24-2012
'Not Current' meant it was an old release. Perhaps attributable to my 'newbieness'... I extracted it in the TMP directory, clicked on the firefox .bin and it was not release 11.

The pkg file that was current was downloaded from sunfreeware.com.

All is well now.
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Old 03-25-2012
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Originally Posted by stansaraczewski
'Not Current' meant it was an old release. Perhaps attributable to my 'newbieness'... I extracted it in the TMP directory, clicked on the firefox .bin and it was not release 11.
The version I posted a link to is definitely the latest one. The issue was very likely you already had a firefox window open. In such situations, firefox doesn't launch itself but instead just open a new window of the current one. Should you want to run it while another instance is already there, you need to use the --no-remote option.
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