firefox-1.0.6.en-US.solaris2.6-sparc-gtk1

A brand-new web browser for an ancient operating system

Some days ago, I built a current Firefox release (version 1.0.6) for some old (sparc-based) Sun workstations still running under Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6). Since there are no other tarballs available on the web (at least, I haven't found any), it's here for download (without any warranties, of course):

• firefox-1.0.6.en-US.solaris2.6-sparc-gtk1.tar.bz2

Requirements

You will probably have to install some more libraries to start firefox:

• gtk+-1.2.10, sources found at <URL:ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/>
• glib-1.2.10, sources found at <URL:ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/>
• libIDL-0.6.8 (only required for building firefox), sources found at <URL:http://andrewtv.org/libIDL/>

With these libraries, firefox is smoothly running on our suns that "uname -a" as:

• SunOS NAME 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
• SunOS NAME 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10,SX