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Mozilla is subject to the terms detailed in the license

agreement accompanying it.

This Read Me file contains information about system

requirements and installation instructions for the Windows,

Mac OS, and Linux builds of Mozilla.

For more info on Mozilla, see www.mozilla.org. To submit bugs

or other feedback, see the Navigator QA menu and check out

Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org for links to known

bugs, bug-writing guidelines, and more. You can also get help

with Bugzilla by pointing your IRC client to #mozillazine

at irc.mozilla.org.

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                      Getting Mozilla

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You can download nightly builds of Mozilla from the

Mozilla.org FTP site at

  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/

For the very latest builds, see

  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk

Keep in mind that nightly builds, which are used by

Mozilla.org developers for testing, may be buggy. If you are

looking for a more polished version of Mozilla, Mozilla.org

releases Milestone builds of Mozilla every six weeks or so

that you can download from

  http://www.mozilla.org/releases

Be sure to read the Mozilla release notes for information

on known problems and installation issues with Mozilla.

The release notes can be found at the preceding URL along

with the milestone releases themselves.

Note: Please use Talkback builds whenever possible. These

builds allow transmission of crash data back to Mozilla

developers, improved crash analysis, and posting of crash

information 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 display

	thousands of colors. For users who cannot set their

	displays to use	more than 256 colors, Mozilla.org

	recommends using the "Classic" theme for Mozilla.

	To select the Modern theme after you have installed

	Mozilla, from the Navigator browser, open the View

	menu, and then open then open the Apply Theme submenu

	and 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 that

you exit all programs before running the setup program. Also,

you should temporarily disable virus-detection software.

For Linux users, note that the installation instructions use

the bash shell. If you're not using bash, adjust the commands

accordingly.

For all platforms, install into a clean (new) directory.

Installing on top of previously released builds may cause

problems.

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

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Note: For Windows NT/2000/XP systems, you need Administrator

privileges to install Mozilla. If you see an "Error 5" message

during installation, make sure you're running the installation

with Administrator privileges.

    To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer,

    follow these steps:

	1. Click the the mozilla-win32-installer.exe link on

	the site you're downloading Mozilla from to download

	the installer file to your machine.

	2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and

	double-click the Mozilla program icon on your machine

	to begin the Setup program.

	3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setup

	program. The program starts automatically the first

	time.

    To install Mozilla by downloading the .zip file and

    installing manually, follow these steps:

	1. Click the mozilla-win32-talkback.zip link or the

	mozilla-win32.zip link on the site you're down-

	loading Mozilla from to download the .zip file to

	your machine.

	2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and

	double-click the compressed file.

	Note: This step assumes you already have a recent

	version of WinZip installed, and that you know how to

	use it. If not,	you can get WinZip and information

	about the program at www.winzip.com.

	3. Extract the .zip file to a directory such as

	C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla.

	4. To start Mozilla, navigate to the directory you

	extracted Mozilla to and double-click the Mozilla.exe

	icon.

Mac OS X Installation Instructions

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    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

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Note: If you install in the default directory (which is

usually /usr/local/mozilla), or any other directory where

only the root user normally has write-access, you must

start Mozilla first as root before other users can start

the program. Doing so generates a set of files required

for 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 downloading

	Mozilla 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) and

	decompress the archive with the following command:

	  tar zxvf moz*.tar.gz

	The installer is now located in a subdirectory of

	Mozilla	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 for

	installing Mozilla.

	Note: If you have a slower machine, be aware that the

	installation may take some time. In this case, the

	installation progress may appear to hang indefinitely,

	even though the installation is still in process.

	6. To start Mozilla, change to the directory where you

	installed 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 downloading

	Mozilla from to download the non-installer

	(mozilla*.tar.gz) file into the mozilla directory.

	3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla) and

	decompress the file with the following command:

	  tar zxvf moz*.tar.gz

	This creates a "mozilla" directory under your mozilla

	directory.

	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 and

	enter the following command:

	  directory_name./mozilla

	where directory_name is the name of the directory

	you downloaded mozilla to. For example, the default

	directory that Mozilla suggests is /usr/local/mozilla.

	3. Type in a name for the icon, and type in a comment

	if you wish.

	4. Click the icon button and type in the following as

	the icon's location:

	  directory_name/icons/mozicon50.xpm

	where directory name is the directory where you

	installed Mozilla. For example, the default directory

	is /usr/local/mozilla/icons/mozicon50.xpm.