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Mozilla is subject to the terms detailed in the licenseagreement accompanying it.
This Read Me file contains information about systemrequirements and installation instructions for the Windows,Mac OS, and Linux builds of Mozilla.
For more info on Mozilla, see www.mozilla.org. To submit bugsor other feedback, see the Navigator QA menu and check outBugzilla at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org for links to knownbugs, bug-writing guidelines, and more. You can also get helpwith Bugzilla by pointing your IRC client to #mozillazineat irc.mozilla.org.
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Getting Mozilla
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You can download nightly builds of Mozilla from theMozilla.org FTP site at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/
For the very latest builds, see
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest
Keep in mind that nightly builds, which are used byMozilla.org developers for testing, may be buggy. If you arelooking for a more polished version of Mozilla, Mozilla.orgreleases Milestone builds of Mozilla every six weeks or sothat you can download from
http://www.mozilla.org/releases Be sure to read the Mozilla release notes for informationon known problems and installation issues with Mozilla.The release notes can be found at the preceding URL alongwith the milestone releases themselves.
Note: Please use Talkback builds whenever possible. Thesebuilds allow transmission of crash data back to Mozilladevelopers, improved crash analysis, and posting of crashinformation to our crash-data newsgroup.
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System Requirements
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*All Platforms
To view and use the new streamlined "Modern" theme,your display monitor should be set to displaythousands of colors. For users who cannot set theirdisplays to use more than 256 colors, Mozilla.orgrecommends using the "Classic" theme for Mozilla.
To select the Modern theme after you have installed Mozilla, from the Navigator browser, open the Viewmenu, and then open then open the Apply Theme submenuand choose Modern.
*Mac OS
-Mac OS X or later-PowerPC processor (266 MHz or faster recommended)-64 MB RAM-36 MB of free hard disk space
*Windows
-Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000 or XP-Intel Pentium class processor (233 MHz or faster recommended)-64 MB RAM-26 MB free hard disk space
*Linux
-The following library versions (or compatible) are required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.x, Glib 1.2.x, Libstdc++ 2.9.0. Red Hat Linux 6.0, Debian 2.1, and SuSE 6.2 (or later) installations should work.-Red Hat 6.x users who want to install the Mozilla RPM must have at least version 4.0.2 of rpm installed.-Intel Pentium class processor (233 MHz or faster recommended)-64MB RAM-26MB free hard disk space
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Installation Instructions
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For Mac OS and Windows users, it is strongly recommended thatyou exit all programs before running the setup program. Also,you should temporarily disable virus-detection software.
For Linux users, note that the installation instructions usethe bash shell. If you're not using bash, adjust the commandsaccordingly.
For all platforms, install into a clean (new) directory.
Installing on top of previously released builds may causeproblems.
Note: These instructions do not tell you how to build Mozilla.For info on building the Mozilla source, see
http://www.mozilla.org/source.html
Windows Installation Instructions---------------------------------
Note: For Windows NT/2000/XP systems, you need Administratorprivileges to install Mozilla. If you see an "Error 5" messageduring installation, make sure you're running the installationwith Administrator privileges.
To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, follow these steps:
1. Click the the mozilla-win32-installer.exe link onthe site you're downloading Mozilla from to downloadthe installer file to your machine.
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file anddouble-click the Mozilla program icon on your machineto begin the Setup program.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setupprogram. The program starts automatically the firsttime.
To install Mozilla by downloading the .zip file and installing manually, follow these steps:
1. Click the mozilla-win32-talkback.zip link or themozilla-win32.zip link on the site you're down-loading Mozilla from to download the .zip file toyour machine.
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file anddouble-click the compressed file.
Note: This step assumes you already have a recentversion of WinZip installed, and that you know how touse it. If not, you can get WinZip and informationabout the program at www.winzip.com.
3. Extract the .zip file to a directory such asC:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla.
4. To start Mozilla, navigate to the directory youextracted Mozilla to and double-click the Mozilla.exeicon.
Mac OS X Installation Instructions----------------------------------
To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla disk image, follow these steps:
1. Click the mozilla-mac-MachO.dmg.gz link to download it to your machine. By default, the download file is downloaded to your desktop.
2. Once you have downloaded the .dmg.gz file, drag it onto Stuffit Expander to decompress it. If the disk image doesn't mount automatically, double-click on the .dmg file to mount it. If that fails, and the file does not look like a disk image file, do a "Show Info" on the file, and, in the "Open with application" category, choose Disk Copy. In Mac OS 10.2, you can use "Open with" from the context menu.
3. Once the disk image mounts, open it, and drag the Mozilla icon onto your hard disk.
4. We recommend that you copy it to the Applications folder.
5. Now Eject the disk image.
6. If you like, you can drag Mozilla to your dock to have it easily accessible at all times. You might also wish to select Mozilla as your default browser in the Internet system preferences pane (under the Web tab).
Linux Installation Instructions-------------------------------
Note: If you install in the default directory (which isusually /usr/local/mozilla), or any other directory whereonly the root user normally has write-access, you muststart Mozilla first as root before other users can startthe program. Doing so generates a set of files requiredfor later use by other users.
To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, follow these steps:
1. Create a directory named mozilla (mkdir mozilla)and change to that directory (cd mozilla).
2. Click the link on the site you're downloadingMozilla from to download the installer file(called mozilla-1686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz)to your machine.
3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla) anddecompress the archive with the following command:
tar zxvf moz*.tar.gz
The installer is now located in a subdirectory ofMozilla named mozilla-installer.
4. Change to the mozilla-installer directory(cd mozilla-installer) and run the installer with the./mozilla-installer command.
5. Follow the instructions in the install wizard forinstalling Mozilla.
Note: If you have a slower machine, be aware that theinstallation may take some time. In this case, theinstallation progress may appear to hang indefinitely,even though the installation is still in process.
6. To start Mozilla, change to the directory where youinstalled it and run the ./mozilla command.
To install Mozilla by downloading the tar.gz file:
1. Create a directory named "mozilla" (mkdir mozilla)and change to that directory (cd mozilla).
2. Click the link on the site you're downloadingMozilla from to download the non-installer(mozilla*.tar.gz) file into the mozilla directory.
3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla) anddecompress the file with the following command:
tar zxvf moz*.tar.gz
This creates a "mozilla" directory under your mozilladirectory.
4. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla).
5. Run Mozilla with the following run script:
./mozilla
To hook up Mozilla complete with icon to the GNOME Panel, follow these steps:
1. Click the GNOME Main Menu button, open the Panel menu,and then open the Add to Panel submenu and choose Launcher.
2. Right-click the icon for Mozilla on the Panel andenter the following command: directory_name./mozilla
where directory_name is the name of the directoryyou downloaded mozilla to. For example, the defaultdirectory that Mozilla suggests is /usr/local/mozilla.
3. Type in a name for the icon, and type in a commentif you wish.
4. Click the icon button and type in the following asthe icon's location:
directory_name/icons/mozicon50.xpm
where directory name is the directory where youinstalled Mozilla. For example, the default directoryis /usr/local/mozilla/icons/mozicon50.xpm.