[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

[ken mays]

Jay,
Newer versions of Firefox usually provided security and feature improvements:https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/
As for closed-source providers, the question is relative to people's use of things like pre-compiled softwareand GMO/processed food. You may use Flash, but do you have the source code for it? If you created patchesfor what you provide to others, you may ask for donations/gifts/money to pay for your time and labor to provide thatservice. 
Even if you have all of the ingredients, do you really know how it was applied? Do you question every food/drink selection provided by a grocery store? Do you question every software you buy from a software outlet? A tangled web indeed to want source code for every software we use or want to use.
Chrome was ported in a related fashion awhile ago by James Choi & Ruben Schade:http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.desktop/13588

Recent versions of Chrome and Firefox are ported and maintained by various people and companies for theirown illumos-based or older OpenSolaris-based distributions.
Website and content providers may test their rendering with specific browsers and recommend users to use recentbrowsers to maintain consistency in rendering and proper web browsing operation
Hope that helped,Ken.


     On Monday, August 24, 2015 6:15 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 > I have 31.8.0esr in Tribblix, which works fine for most things. Anything
>> else
>> I run 40.whatever under Wine, which actually does a very good job.
>>
>
> Hello.
> Does FF plugins work for you (IcedTea/Flash)? Is it gcc-compiled?
>

I'm just using the Oracle builds. (Actually, the S10 build which is more
compatible - the SS11 build requires a bit more of gnome than I have.)

I have IcedTea if I need it. Not having flash isn't a great loss ;-)

(It's the only thing I have that uses pangox, which got removed from
pango a while back. OK, I could add pangox-compat, but I'm not
sure it's worth it. Not having flash - or plugins generally - makes
the browser much more stable, and there isn't that much that needs
flash [and there are fairly aggressive moves to get rid of flash anyway).
The flash plugin is pretty old anyway, so you wouldn't really want it. I
have looked at lightspark and gnash, but they are pretty messy. Or
there's Shumway. But it's so much easier to run a Windows version
of Firefox under Wine if you actually need some of the horrors.)

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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