| Name: | Mozilla |
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| Description: | web
browser (Navigator),
web editor (Composer), email client and newsgroup reader (Mail &
Newsgroups), IRC client (ChatZilla), address book JavaScript Debugger (Venkman), DOM Inspector (Inspector) (and eventually Calendar, FTP client, download manager and more). But Mozilla can be many more things as it is an open standards, cross platform (XP), development environment, thus supporting an infinite number of applications that can be written to run with it (see MozDev link further on) |
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| Subject Area: | \internet\browsers |
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| Operating System(s): | Windows, Windows NT, Mac, Mac OS X,
Unix, GNU/Linux |
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| Required Hardware: | 64MB RAM and a couple of hundred
megahertz proccessor to run comfortably. officially the minimum processor
is an Intel Pentium 266MHz or equivalent but it will run,
though too slowly, on a Cyrix 686-166 with 128MB RAM |
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| Licensing Types: | Free software |
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| Languages Available: | many, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html (beware, currently language files should only be installed with the version of Mozilla they were intended for, else results are unpredictable) |
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| Author / Organisation: | Mozilla.org |
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| Related Software: | Netscape Navigator / Communicator (the Netscape
branded version of Mozilla comes with an array of capitalist
branding/consumer add-ons); K-Meleon; Galeon; Opera; Lynx; Internet
Explorer |
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| Standards Supported: | XUL, XBL, JavaScript 1.5 (ECMAScript Revision 3),
CSS1 (and large chunks of CSS2), DTD, RDF, XML, HTML, XHTML, MathML,
SOAP, P3P; JPG, PNG, MNG, GIF |
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| WWW Info/Download: | download the latest release from http://mozilla.org/. download
the latest nightly trunk build from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/, download the latest
1.0.x branch nightly build from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.0.0/ query the BugZilla bug/issue database at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi. report bugs/issues using Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) some useful bugzilla queries (Bugzilla is the Mozilla project's issue tracking tool) ... bugs fixed in the last day (press 'Submit query' button near bottom), today's checkins, today's reported bugs/issues, 'topcrasher' bugs, what needs to be fixed before Mozilla 1.0 more applications created using Mozilla technology can be found at http://mozdev.org; some examples: shared bookmarks, create Web-enabled applications that run on top of Mozilla's core engine |
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| FTP Download: |
Windows
package with installer: mozilla-win32-x.x.x-installer.exe and
mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe download the latest release or latest nightly build from http://mozilla.org/ or get the
latest release from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/
or ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/ |
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| IRC Discussion: | #mozilla (irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozilla) and #mozillazine (irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillazine) and more on
irc.mozilla.org (port 6667) |
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| Freely Distributable? | yes |
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| amends Windows registry? | yes | includes an installer? | yes |
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| Registry Settings of Note: | ||||||
| Registry Permissions Reqd [WinNT]: | ||||||
| Saves Icons to: | ||||||
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| Log of Changes Installer Made: | %PROGRAMFILES%\mozilla.org\mozilla\install_status.log |
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| Behaviour in Windows NT Multi-User Environment: | very good. a WinNT/2k install on a
standalone system will automatically create a profile for each user, the
files for which are stored in their own user area (a profile still
cannot completely live on the server however, something still needs to
be copied to each workstation) |
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| Config / ini / Preference File(s): | See our document on pre-configuring Mozilla: mozilla-pre-config.html the order of precedence for preferences files is: ALL.JS -> PREFS.JS -> USER.JS user profile directory locations:
user preference files:
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| settings worth making: |
See our document on
pre-configuring Mozilla: mozilla-pre-config.html disallow JavaScript for Mail&News user_pref("javascript.allow.mailnews", "false"); ALL.JS - add MIME types?: Navigator -> Helper Applications - define Custom Keywords preferences from within Navigator: View -> Show/Hide -> Site Navigation Bar -> Show Only As Needed (Mozilla 1.0+ only) delete default Personal Toolbar items Sidebar -> Tabs -> Tinderbox: SeaMonkey - off Sidebar -> Tabs -> Tinderbox: SeaMonkey-Ports - off turn off Sidebar delete imported Internet Explorer bookmarks (unless you've used Internet Explorer and used this feature) see 'Customizing Mozilla' for more: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html you can get a list of which preferences are set by typing about:config into the URI bar preferences from within Mail and Newsgroups: General Settings -> Use Mozilla Mail as the default mail application - on/off Send Format -> Convert the message to plain text (some formatting may be lost) Scripts & Windows -> Enable JavaScript for: Mail & Newsgroups - off |
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| command-line switches (use 'Mozilla -switch'): | you can combine command-line options so as to load multiple
Mozilla components at the same time by using mozilla -component-name the Mozilla components are:
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| Notes: |
if Mozilla messes up and you uninstall then reinstall to fix the problem, it may still have problems unless you also manually delete %windir%\mozver.dat and %windir%\nsreg.dat installs
to: Win98: %windir%\Application Data\Mozilla (or maybe elsewhere if there are profiles for more than one user) Win2k:
documents and settings\username\Application Data\mozilla whilst installing, Mozilla stores files in %temp%\ns_temp Mozilla Mail saves email in MBOX format |
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