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3 = = = = = = = = = = Mozilla Read Me = = = = = = = = = = =
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7 Mozilla is subject to the terms detailed in the license
8 agreement accompanying it.
10 This Read Me file contains information about system
11 requirements and installation instructions for the Windows,
12 Mac OS, and Linux builds of Mozilla.
14 For more info on Mozilla, see www.mozilla.org. To submit bugs
15 or other feedback, see the Navigator QA menu and check out
16 Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org for links to known
17 bugs, bug-writing guidelines, and more. You can also get help
18 with Bugzilla by pointing your IRC client to #mozillazine
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28 You can download nightly builds of Mozilla from the
29 Mozilla.org FTP site at
31 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/
33 For the very latest builds, see
35 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk
37 Keep in mind that nightly builds, which are used by
38 Mozilla.org developers for testing, may be buggy. If you are
39 looking for a more polished version of Mozilla, Mozilla.org
40 releases Milestone builds of Mozilla every six weeks or so
41 that you can download from
43 http://www.mozilla.org/releases
45 Be sure to read the Mozilla release notes for information
46 on known problems and installation issues with Mozilla.
47 The release notes can be found at the preceding URL along
48 with the milestone releases themselves.
50 Note: Please use Talkback builds whenever possible. These
51 builds allow transmission of crash data back to Mozilla
52 developers, improved crash analysis, and posting of crash
53 information to our crash-data newsgroup.
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64 To view and use the new streamlined "Modern" theme,
65 your display monitor should be set to display
66 thousands of colors. For users who cannot set their
67 displays to use more than 256 colors, Mozilla.org
68 recommends using the "Classic" theme for Mozilla.
70 To select the Modern theme after you have installed
71 Mozilla, from the Navigator browser, open the View
72 menu, and then open then open the Apply Theme submenu
78 -PowerPC processor (266 MHz or faster recommended)
80 -36 MB of free hard disk space
84 -Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000 or XP
85 -Intel Pentium class processor (233 MHz or faster
88 -26 MB free hard disk space
92 -The following library versions (or compatible) are
93 required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.x, Glib
94 1.2.x, Libstdc++ 2.9.0. Red Hat Linux 6.0,
95 Debian 2.1, and SuSE 6.2 (or later) installations
97 -Red Hat 6.x users who want to install the Mozilla
98 RPM must have at least version 4.0.2 of rpm
100 -Intel Pentium class processor (233 MHz or faster
103 -26MB free hard disk space
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108 Installation Instructions
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112 For Mac OS and Windows users, it is strongly recommended that
113 you exit all programs before running the setup program. Also,
114 you should temporarily disable virus-detection software.
116 For Linux users, note that the installation instructions use
117 the bash shell. If you're not using bash, adjust the commands
120 For all platforms, install into a clean (new) directory.
121 Installing on top of previously released builds may cause
124 Note: These instructions do not tell you how to build Mozilla.
125 For info on building the Mozilla source, see
127 http://www.mozilla.org/source.html
130 Windows Installation Instructions
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133 Note: For Windows NT/2000/XP systems, you need Administrator
134 privileges to install Mozilla. If you see an "Error 5" message
135 during installation, make sure you're running the installation
136 with Administrator privileges.
139 To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer,
142 1. Click the the mozilla-win32-installer.exe link on
143 the site you're downloading Mozilla from to download
144 the installer file to your machine.
146 2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and
147 double-click the Mozilla program icon on your machine
148 to begin the Setup program.
150 3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setup
151 program. The program starts automatically the first
155 To install Mozilla by downloading the .zip file and
156 installing manually, follow these steps:
158 1. Click the mozilla-win32-talkback.zip link or the
159 mozilla-win32.zip link on the site you're down-
160 loading Mozilla from to download the .zip file to
163 2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and
164 double-click the compressed file.
166 Note: This step assumes you already have a recent
167 version of WinZip installed, and that you know how to
168 use it. If not, you can get WinZip and information
169 about the program at www.winzip.com.
171 3. Extract the .zip file to a directory such as
172 C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla.
174 4. To start Mozilla, navigate to the directory you
175 extracted Mozilla to and double-click the Mozilla.exe
179 Mac OS X Installation Instructions
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182 To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla disk image,
185 1. Click the mozilla-mac-MachO.dmg.gz link to download
186 it to your machine. By default, the download file is
187 downloaded to your desktop.
189 2. Once you have downloaded the .dmg.gz file, drag it
190 onto Stuffit Expander to decompress it. If the disk
191 image doesn't mount automatically, double-click on the
192 .dmg file to mount it. If that fails, and the file
193 does not look like a disk image file, do a "Show Info"
194 on the file, and, in the "Open with application"
195 category, choose Disk Copy. In Mac OS 10.2, you can
196 use "Open with" from the context menu.
198 3. Once the disk image mounts, open it, and drag the
199 Mozilla icon onto your hard disk.
201 4. We recommend that you copy it to the Applications
204 5. Now Eject the disk image.
206 6. If you like, you can drag Mozilla to your dock to
207 have it easily accessible at all times. You might also
208 wish to select Mozilla as your default browser in the
209 Internet system preferences pane (under the Web tab).
212 Linux Installation Instructions
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215 Note: If you install in the default directory (which is
216 usually /usr/local/mozilla), or any other directory where
217 only the root user normally has write-access, you must
218 start Mozilla first as root before other users can start
219 the program. Doing so generates a set of files required
220 for later use by other users.
223 To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer,
226 1. Create a directory named mozilla (mkdir mozilla)
227 and change to that directory (cd mozilla).
229 2. Click the link on the site you're downloading
230 Mozilla from to download the installer file
231 (called mozilla-1686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz)
234 3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla) and
235 decompress the archive with the following command:
239 The installer is now located in a subdirectory of
240 Mozilla named mozilla-installer.
242 4. Change to the mozilla-installer directory
243 (cd mozilla-installer) and run the installer with the
244 ./mozilla-installer command.
246 5. Follow the instructions in the install wizard for
249 Note: If you have a slower machine, be aware that the
250 installation may take some time. In this case, the
251 installation progress may appear to hang indefinitely,
252 even though the installation is still in process.
254 6. To start Mozilla, change to the directory where you
255 installed it and run the ./mozilla command.
258 To install Mozilla by downloading the tar.gz file:
260 1. Create a directory named "mozilla" (mkdir mozilla)
261 and change to that directory (cd mozilla).
263 2. Click the link on the site you're downloading
264 Mozilla from to download the non-installer
265 (mozilla*.tar.gz) file into the mozilla directory.
267 3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla) and
268 decompress the file with the following command:
272 This creates a "mozilla" directory under your mozilla
275 4. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla).
277 5. Run Mozilla with the following run script:
282 To hook up Mozilla complete with icon to the GNOME Panel,
285 1. Click the GNOME Main Menu button, open the Panel menu,
286 and then open the Add to Panel submenu and choose Launcher.
288 2. Right-click the icon for Mozilla on the Panel and
289 enter the following command:
290 directory_name./mozilla
292 where directory_name is the name of the directory
293 you downloaded mozilla to. For example, the default
294 directory that Mozilla suggests is /usr/local/mozilla.
296 3. Type in a name for the icon, and type in a comment
299 4. Click the icon button and type in the following as
302 directory_name/icons/mozicon50.xpm
304 where directory name is the directory where you
305 installed Mozilla. For example, the default directory
306 is /usr/local/mozilla/icons/mozicon50.xpm.