Hello.
[email protected] писал 24.08.2015 04:43:
ken mays <[email protected]> wrote on Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:14:15
+0000 (UTC):
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.
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).
And, speaking of OpenSXCE (from which one can apparently obtain a
working version of Firefox 37) -- there was a huge amount of
discussion on this mailing list a while back about OpenSXCE. I do not
want to re-awaken those sleeping threads, I truly do not want to read
any more postings about whether the man who gave us OpenSXCE is
irredeemably and irretrievably antisocial, or whether it is moral to
donate money to someone whose political sympathies lie with people who
blow up schoolbuses.
I'd say these kinds of jokes are insulting. It's better to stop it.
I just have one question, which is, why do
people care so much? As far as I can tell, OpenSXCE is a
closed-source OS, is it not?
I remember, there were talks about some sources, but in fact yes, it's
closed source.
Just because it has Firefox version 37? Is Firefox version
37 really so much better than Firefox 17.0.11?
At least it has a ton of security fixes which we miss. And yes, a lot of
sites already require newer FF version.
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