Sorry, the situation hasn't changed (935325, 959919). I suggest you direct this question either at IBM support, or at the AIX forum.

• Support
• Community

• The only official builds are for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• The only hosted contributed build is for Solaris.
• IBM only makes mention of Firefox 3.6.25.
• I couldn't find any third-party builds more recent than 3.6.28.

Thanks for the input!

I have talked to IBM Support. They will not tell me if they are working on a port of a newer version. (Have not posted anything at the AIX Forum for years!

I usually do not get any help from the people at the Forum!)

If I wanted to give it a try; how do I locate the full source tree for the Linux version of firefox, mozilla and seamonkey?

dkcchayek wrote:

If I wanted to give it a try; how do I locate the full source tree for the Linux version of firefox, mozilla and seamonkey?

I take it you mean Thunderbird, not Mozilla. The Mozilla Application Suite is a discontinued product that's much older than Firefox 3.6.28 (the last version is dated April 21st, 2006).

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions

You may find references to the VisualAge C++ compiler that is normally needed to build. IBM renamed this product to XL C/C++.

• http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/xlcpp-aix

dkcchayek wrote:

Thanks for the input!

You're welcome, for what little help I could provide.

Hi,

 Thanks for the link!  For some reason I have a difficult time finding

the link to the source tree. Long ago it was really easy.

 I do not have IBM XL C/C++.  The only C/C++ compiler I have is

gcc. Is it possible to compile the source trees using gcc? (I also have four programs that perform the make function. I have make, gmake, linux make and smake.)

 Once everthing is downloaded I will have to check to see if

I have all the prereqs.... I also have to set thing up so that the compile/link will use IBM Linux toolkit.

 This is not going to be fun....
 Wish I could convince IBM to port one of the newer version of

firefox and thunderbird. (The version I am using were created by Uli Link. IBM just provides a version of firefox.)

 Thanks again for the help!

dkcchayek wrote:

Is it possible to compile the source trees using gcc?

Not accoding to ancient documentation for the defunct Mozilla Suite. Third-party sites also mention building Firefox on AIX using VisualAge C++. I suppose something may have changed in the meantime, but the chance seems slim to me. The Unix/Linux Prerequisites article, All Other Systems section is probably the only relevant up-to-date documentation.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/…Linux_Prerequisites#All_other_systems
• http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/aix.html#compiler
• http://www.linkitup.de/ForAIX/Firefox/build.html

On this forum, a space at the beginning of a line will display it in monospaced text.

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/markup-chart