Firefox is nice, but it's getting more and more heavy. So I tried and find other browsers...

Name	Platform	Text or GUI ?	Supports SSL	Supports Flash	Comments
Firefox	Windows, Linux (firefox-mozilla-build), Solaris (Mozilla, Solaris4you, SunFreeware), OpenSolaris (SUNWfirefox is installed by default, SFWfirefox is installed in /opt/sfw) On Debian, add the ubuntuzilla keys to receive firefox and thunderbird updates: sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29 sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntuzilla.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build	GUI	Yes	Yes	Getting heavy but good
Lobo	Java	GUI	?	?	Bad Layout. To run it: java -jar lobo.jar.
Google Chrome	Windows, Linux	GUI	Yes	Yes	A few plugins
K-meleon	Windows	GUI	Yes	?	No plugins, but supports Java
Conkeror	Linux, Windows	GUI but Emacs shortcuts	Yes	Yes	Yes - Mozilla plugins

Selecting the default web browser

$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                       Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/chromium-browser   40        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium-browser   40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/firefox            40        manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 0

Chrome

On Linux Mint:

/usr/bin/chromium-browser

Firefox

Firefox: Solaris Installation Tips

Those notes are specific to Solaris
The bzip2 actually contains several packages that all install in /opt/sfw (cairo, pango, firefox...). In my case, actually, I only need the firefox package. However, so far, I haven't managed to get firefox3 working if I only install that package and move it to /opt/csw. Consequently, I have installed all required packages in /opt/sfw. This is a pity because some libraries are duplicated (cairo, pango...)

Firefox is installed in /opt/sfw:

/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/updater
/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/updater.ini
/usr/share/applications/firefox3.desktop
/opt/sfw/bin/firefox <symbolic link>

Launch /opt/sfw/bin/firefox & and Firefox3 starts !

Those notes are for OpenSolaris only.
There are often two Firefox packages on OpenSolaris:

SUNWfirefox (etc): default release with OpenSolaris. Difficult to remove because of multiple dependencies.
SFWfirefox (SUN Freeware package), typically installed in /opt/sfw

To install,

Download package from mozilla
e.g: bzip2 -d firefox-8.0b6.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2
pfexec pkgadd -d firefox-8.0b6.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg
do a link between /opt/sfw/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/firefox

Those are notes for OpenIndiana: Use the package from mozilla: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/21.0/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/ The default install location is /opt/sfw/lib/firefox.

Firefox files

Firefox bookmarks are backuped in the user's profile in bookmarkbackup directory as bookmarks-DATE.json.

Firefox plugins

FireFTP
AdBlock Plus
PDF Download
Disconnect
Flash Block
HTTPS Everywhere

Flash Player for Firefox

Solaris	OpenSolaris 2008.11	OpenIndiana	Debian	Ubuntu
Yes. TODO	Yes here	Get an old flash player as the new ones are no longer supported. Then do a symbolic link in your own .mozilla/plugins. $ ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so	sudo mkdir /opt/firefox/plugins sudo cp libflashplayer.so /opt/firefox/plugins/

To install a system-wide Flash Player for Firefox on Solaris:

Unzip it (e.g. bzip2 -d flash_player_9_solaris_x86.tar.bz2)
Untar it and put both files flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins (or /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins depending on your version).
Restart firefox
Check a shockwave flash plugins is loaded in about:plugins
Check the plugin is okay with Adobe's online plugin test.

Firefox Java Plugin

To install the java plugin in Firefox3, copy (or link) the java plugin to the firefox3 plugins directory:

Solaris 10	OpenSolaris 2008.11	OpenIndiana	Debian
/opt/sfw/lib/firefox3/plugins	/usr/lib/firefox/plugins	cd ~/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /path/to/JAVA HOME/lib/SPARC or i386/libnpjp2.so	INSTALLDIR/plugins

For example,

cd /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins
ln -s /usr/jdk/latest/plugin/i386/ns4/libjavaplugin.so .

On Debian:

ln -s INSTALLDIR/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

To enable the Java Console menu item in the Tools menu:

cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.4/extensions
unzip /usr/java/jre1.6.0/lib/deploy/ffjcext.zip

Opera

Opera Java Plugin

To configure the java plugin in Opera, locate libjava.so and put this path in Tools -> Preferences ->Advanced -> Content -> Java options.

Chrome

On Linux Mint, package is chromium-browser.