As I had expected, most folks advised moving to mozilla ASAP. I have included the responses I received ( or atleast the comments of them ) as opposed to "summarizing them. There were several very good comments and ideas to follow through on. This list is certainly a treasure chest of knowledge and experience. Special thanks to Werner Mohren for offering to share his copy with me. Not sure about specifically Netscape 7.2, but: Firefox 0.10.1 for Sparc can be obtained here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/contrib/ Mozilla 1.7.3 for Sparc can be obtained here: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7.3 Netscape 7.2 for UNIX is only available in Linux flavors (no Sparc). All three of the above browsers render using the Gecko rendering engine, so they're essentially the same as each other. Best, Angelo Mc Comis +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have browsed Netscape's ftp site ( http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/ ), but wasn't successful. There is no Netscape 7.2 for Solaris SPARC. Probably Mozilla or Firefox are available for download. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0.10.html#download http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/contrib/firefox-1.0PR-sparc-sun-solar is2.8.tar.gz Michael +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It doesn't exist. You might want to let your management know that Netscape will no longer be supported by the main UNIX vendors such as Sun, HP, IBM, or SGI. They are going to Mozilla. -- deb +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have Mozilla and firefox loaded on my machine. Mozilla seems a little slow at times and gets hung on occasion. It is a big step up from Netscape 4.7 thought! Firefox is a different story! It is GREAT! I do literally EVERYTHING with it. I have been inputing my time sheet for months with it and never had a problem. The source is on the mozilla web site. Or I can send you the entire tarball I have. Please call me sometime if you want to run it off my machine and reverse the display down to yours just to see what it looks like. Page me if I don't answer. I am often working away from my desk. I look forward to hearing from you! Terry Up on http://sunfreeware.com/ There is a link for "Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird" in the right hand margin. You can follow the links from there to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#download Where there is a link to Solaris SPARC: firefox-1.0PR-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz - Sun Contributed Forte build (README) (MD5SUM) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Netscape is leveraged from the mozilla project - there is a version available from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.8a4/contrib/mozilla-sparc-sun-solaris2.8_1.8a4.tar.bz2 This is probably a better idea than netscape as you'll get better community support for mozilla on Solaris than netscape on Solaris. Hope this helps, Iain. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >From what i've read, Netscape only ever released 7.0 for Solaris, but even this is no longer available for download. Now Sun provides Mozilla for Solaris, which isn't all that different since Netscape 7+ is built from Mozilla source. You can get Sun's mozilla from http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/browser/index.html or you can get a more recent build and the source from http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ If all you need is a web browser, minus the mail client and everything else, you might want to check out Firefox, which is just the web browser part of mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/ -f +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sun did host a 7.x version of netscape. (i don't remember whether it was 7.1 or 7.2) all the netscape release for windows are not available for solaris. the netscape 7.x should be available from the downloads page at sun.com. it will be archived more than likely. sun is now hosting a 1.4 mozilla and is currently recommending it as the latest browser. source code will come from netscape. mozilla source will come from mozailla.org. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ take it from me: ftp://ftp.orn.mpg.de/netscape7/solaris +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ just for what it may be worth, we were also in a "browser version hell" of sorts here about 1.5 years ago, especially problematic for us because -many in-house apps are java/web GUI so quite critical for operations -most workstations are "sunray" thin clients, and so the platform is quite sensitive to "cpu and memory pig" apps. -it turns out, rough tests with running netscape > 4.X lineage (netscape 6.X or 7.X) had a terrible impact on performance. Much heavier apps in terms of memory and CPU requirements.. a sunray server of 4x400mhz with 2 gigs of ram that worked fine previously was struggling hard with the transition (20 concurrent users environment). I looked at alternatives (mozilla, firefox, opera) and did have slight success with these in terms of performance [but java/JVM issues were the real roadblock], so ultimately went over to a totally separate "app server" (Dual-2000mhz athlon running linux, serving up Mozilla and OpenOffice) - and we haven't looked back since. Performance is very nice, cost was minimal. Integration is no problem (kerberos centralized user auth makes the app forwarding transparent to end users, NFS homedirs help) and stability is "just fine" despite the app server being a brand-X rackmount. Of course, I suspect that we could have deployed a beefed up sunray server (quad-1.2ghz UltraSparc or some such), but the cost would have been at least an order of magnitude higher, and I'm not convinced the performance would have been any different. It is *possible* you already have adequately robust hardware on the back end, but given your "migration" nature of question, it led me to suspect maybe "older" (<1000mhz Sparc CPU based?), which will create "issues" with "newer web browsers" I suspect. Also, I guess, you might consider this a "vote of confidence" in using "mozilla" as a production web browser .. despite the "warnings" that suggest it is "for testing only" ... we've found it is very solid. Hope this is of slight use / interest, Tim Chipman +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have installed the latest version of Mozilla on my machines. My method is to download and install the latest version from Sun then to delete the guts and unzip the latest from mozilla in the directory. Mozilla is the replacement for Netscape. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Nov 2 12:21:39 2004
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