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Fast Free Reliable Web Browser
By Stephen Bucaro
Mozilla is a free Web browser that offers more features than
Internet Explorer 6. At the core of Mozilla is Gecko, a fast,
reliable, open-source standards-based page rendering engine. You
can have confidence in Mozilla because it adheres strictly to
World Wide Web Consortium standards. Download Mozilla from
http://mozilla.org
To install Mozilla, execute the self-extracting setup program,
mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe. The setup program provides the
option to set up Quick Launch, which makes Mozilla start faster
by keeping portions of the program in the computers memory. The
seup program also provides the option to set Mozilla as your
default browser.
=> Linux
Mozilla is fully certified to run on Red Hat Linux. First log in
as root and create a directory named Mozilla. Download the file:
mozilla-1686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz from
http://mozilla.org to your Mozilla directory. Then open a
terminal window and change to the Mozilla directory.
The downloaded file has a .tar.gz extension. The .tar part of
the extension indicates that it is an archive. The .gz part of
the file indicates that it is compressed. To decompress the
archive type the following command.
tar zxvf moz*.tar.gz
A directory named mozilla-installer will be created in the
Mozilla directory. Change to the mozilla-installer directory and
type in the following command.
./mozilla-installer
The Install Wizard will appear. Follow the instructions in the
Install Wizard.
To start Mozilla change to the directory where you installed it
(/usr/local/mozilla by default) and run the ./mozilla command.
To put a Mozilla icon in the gnome panel, open the gnome main
menu and select Panel | Add to Panel | Lancher... In the Create
Launcher applet dialog box that appears, click on the No Icon
button.
In the Choose an Icon dialog box that appears, browse to the
Mozilla/icons directory and select the mozicon16.xpm icon. Click
on the OK button. Then in the Create Launcher applet dialog box
enter the name: Mozilla, Command: /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla.
Make sure Application is selected in the Type: drop down box.
Click on the OK button.
=> Features
Mozilla's email reader can easily handle checking mail from
several servers at once without the complexity of configuring
multiple user profiles. The very first time you launch Mail &
Newsgroups, if you have not already set up an account, it
displays the Account Wizard so you can create an account. To set
up a mail account with an ISP or email provider, you'll need to
provide your user name, email address, and incoming and outgoing
mail server names.
Mozilla's built-in HTML editor, Composer, offers WYSIWYG and
HTML source code views. To open Composer select File | New |
Composer Page. Composer can FTP your files your Web site.
Mozilla's Preferences menu lets you block pop-up windows. To
block pop-up windows, select Edit | Preferences and open
Advanced | Scripts & Plugins, and turn off the option that lets
scripts "open unrequested windows" This feature alone makes
Moziila worth having.
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