Wednesday Nov 04, 2009
Sometimes, I'd like to know which profile I am using with my current Firefox instance (for example if an instance has been open for a long time, or if I'm running two instances (using firefox -P -no-remote) at the same time.
I found the solution on this web site:
Start Tools->Error Console (or press <ctrl><shift>j)
Then, in the Code line at the top (you can jump to it using <ctrl>o), enter the following code and press Return (or click the "Evaluate" button):
alert(Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIProperties).get("ProfD", Components.interfaces.nsIFile).path);
It will show the full path of your profile in a popup window. The name of the profile is the last string after the last dot.
Monday Nov 02, 2009
The following OpenSolaris page contains all download links for Firefox 3.6b1, 3.5.5, and 3.0.15, Thunderbird 3.0b4 and 2.0.0.23, and Seamonkey 2.0b1 on OpenSolaris and Solaris 10:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/development
You can still find Firefox 2.0.0.20 linked here:
http://blogs.sun.com/blogfinger/entry/firefox_for_solaris_latest_versions2
You can also browse all Firefox versions for all platforms here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
And the latest Acrobat Reader (current version is 9.2) for OpenSolaris is - as always - available via the following page:
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
Friday Jul 10, 2009
These are the direct links for downloading Firefox 3.5 for Solaris:
You can still find the links to the latest Firefox 2 version (2.0.0.20) in this blog entry, and to Firefox 3.0 in this blog entry.
If you are visiting the Mozilla web site from a Solaris system, your system will be automatically detected, and you can a see link which shows "Download Firefox - Free" and "3.5 for SunOS". That link directs you to the Mozilla development page on OpenSolaris.org. Unfortunately, the Solaris versions are not yet mentioned on the "Other Systems and Languages" web page (actually, that's why I am maintaining the Firefox for Solaris links in my blog), but who knows - maybe we'll see it there in a while.
Friday Jul 10, 2009
These are the direct links for downloading the latest versions of Firefox 3 for Solaris:
You can still find the links to the latest Firefox 2 version (2.0.0.20) in this blog entry.
If you would like to install multiple versions of Firefox on your Solaris system, you can use the tarballs or my script for renaming a Firefox package.
Oh - and if you are running Solaris or OpenSolaris on x86, I suggest to install the recently released Adobe Reader 9.1 for Solaris x86!
Wednesday Apr 01, 2009
These are the direct links for downloading the latest versions of Firefox 3 for Solaris:
You can still find the links to the latest Firefox 2 version (2.0.0.20) in this blog entry.
If you would like to install multiple versions of Firefox on your Solaris system, you can use the tarballs or my script for renaming a Firefox package.
Oh - and if you are running Solaris or OpenSolaris on x86, I suggest to install the recently released Adobe Reader 9.1 for Solaris x86!
Thursday Mar 26, 2009
Recently, I encountered an article on Heise Security (for the English version, click here) and found it very useful. The article recommended to change the property browser.identity.ssl_domain_display from 0 to 1 in about:config so that the area in which the favicon is displayed (left to the URL line) will also display the domain name. The change will make it much easier to identify a secure web sit before entering personal or otherwise sensitive information like passwords, so I also recommend it. You can find screen shots at the bottom of the mentioned article.
Thursday Mar 05, 2009
These are the direct links for downloading the latest versions of Firefox 3 for Solaris. Because there are several security bug fixes implemented in 3.0.7, I strongly recommend to install them soon:
You can still find the links to the latest Firefox 2 version (2.0.0.20) in my previous blog entry on Firefox versions for Solaris.
If you would like to install multiple versions of Firefox on your Solaris system, you can use the tarballs or my script for renaming a Firefox package.
Monday Feb 09, 2009
These are the direct links for downloading the latest versions of Firefox for Solaris:
Note that you can easily install multiple version of Firefox on Solaris, using either the tarballs or my script for renaming a Firefox package.
Tuesday Dec 30, 2008
After Alfred mentioned my blog entry on installing multiple versions of Firefox on Solaris using pkgadd instead of tar, I tested the package renaming script with Firefox 3.1b2 and found that I cannot extract the version number just from the pkginfo output. Instead, I had to use the VERSION line of the pkginfo -l output.
So I uploaded a changed version of the rename-firefox-pkg script (under its old name, as I only changed one line, and the script still works as before with older packages like Firefox 3.0.5 and Firefox 2.0.0.19).
Friday Dec 26, 2008
Up to now, in cases where I had to use multiple versions of Firefox on the same Solaris system, I installed the latest version as pkgadd, and the other versions as tar, for example in /usr/local. This is because the Solaris contributed builds always are published under the same name (which is probably OK for most users).
But it is also possible to install multiple versions of Firefox (3.0.5, 3.0.4, 2.0.0.19, and so forth) on the same system, after extracting and then changing each package before installation. Here's how it works:
- Expand the pkg.bz2 file to pkg, using bzip2 -dc.
- Create a temporary directory where the package content will be stored.
- Using the -s pkgadd option, spool (extract) the package into this directory.
- In the spool directory, rename the old Firefox directory to a new name (for example firefox to firefox-305).
- Change the pkginfo file to the new package name (e.g. MOZfirefox to MOZfirefox-305).
- Change the pkgmap file to match the new directoy name and the new size and checksum of the pkginfo file.
- Install the renamed package, using pkgadd -d . MOZfirefox-305, for example.
Here's how it looks like after the installation:
/tmp# ls -ald extr*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 188 2008-12-23 22:11 extracted-firefox-20081223-221103
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 188 2008-12-23 22:15 extracted-firefox-20081223-221529
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 190 2008-12-24 12:02 extracted-firefox-20081224-120152
/opt/sfw/lib# pkginfo | grep MOZ
application MOZfirefox-20019 firefox 2.0.0.19 for Solaris 10
application MOZfirefox-304 firefox 3.0.4 for Solaris 11
application MOZfirefox-305 firefox 3.0.5 for Solaris 11
/opt/sfw/lib# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 46 2008-12-24 12:02 firefox-20019
drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 47 2008-12-23 22:15 firefox-304
drwxr-xr-x 13 root bin 47 2008-12-23 22:15 firefox-305
I wrote a script which performs all these steps (except installation). I have tested it on various Solaris releases from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris. So far, I have not seen any errors.
As always: No guarantee or similar. Please back up your files before using the script.
Tuesday Dec 23, 2008
These are the direct links for downloading the latest versions of Firefox for Solaris (thanks to everyone involved for making them avaiable!):
Note: Firefox 2.0.0.20 was only made available for Windows (an important Firefox fix for Windows was missing in 2.0.0.19).
Tuesday Dec 02, 2008
How to run several Firefox 3 instances on Solaris[Read More]
Friday Nov 28, 2008
Downloading Firefox for Solaris is now easier than ever before![Read More]
Thursday Nov 27, 2008
These are the direct links for downloading the latest versions of Firefox for Solaris:
Wednesday Jun 18, 2008
Firefox 3.0 is now released, as you may have heard already.
Here are the direct links for downloading the OpenSolaris versions:
Wednesday Jul 04, 2007
Imagine you could have a browser with a command line which has nearly all important vi commands! Imagine you could scroll a page down using f, search using "/", or navigate to another tab using "b" and the number of the tab!
How? Just go to the Vimperator site, download the latest xpi file and drag it into your Firefox window to install it.
Be aware that it's still beta - currently open bugs are here. But it works reasonably well already.
Thursday Apr 12, 2007
Click here.
The most useful one for bloggers is probably CoLT which can copy a URL and its description into the clipboard. Also, one of the tab counters (Tab Counter or TabCount) can be really useful in case you fear losing control over your tabs.
Saturday Mar 31, 2007
Link collection on developing Firefox extensions [Read More]
Saturday Mar 31, 2007
A list and a short description of my favorite Firefox extensions[Read More]
Friday Mar 02, 2007
How to disable the middle mouse button's contentLoadURL feature[Read More]
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