Wednesday January 04, 2006

Nightly builds of Firefox on Solaris (and other OSes)

One of the frustrations lots of folks had working with Mozilla was trying to get the lastest accessible Mozilla to work with. For a bunch of internal-to-Sun reasons we were working on our own branch of Mozilla 1.7, and since Sun engineers were doing the UNIX accessibility work, that's where it went first (and only later did it migrate into the main Mozilla source repository).

Sun is now working off of the main Mozilla repository, or "trunk", and our accessibility work is focusing on Firefox. Furthermore, we now have nightly builds of Firefox for Solaris SPARC and Solaris x86 available for your downloading & testing pleasure. Note though that it is still early days in Sun's UNIX Firefox accessibility work - that team is still ironing out some of the basic issues.

See the main contributed nightly builds page and for the latest contributed builds, and go here for Solaris SPARC and here for Solaris x86/x64. Note: nightly Firefox builds for Linux are built by the core Firefox/Mozilla team (vs. contributed to the Mozilla ftp site by folks like Sun), and can be found here for Linux x86. Other nightly binaries built by the core team are in the core nightly build directory. (2006-01-04 17:21:28.0) Permalink