Mozilla Quick Start Guide

What to do with the latest binaries. How to upgrade from proprietary web browsers to Mozilla.

[FIXME: move to] http://wiki.mozilla.org/

Quick Start Guide for Macintosh:

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Quick Start Guide for Windows:

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Quick Start Guide for Linux:

If you're not already in a graphical environment, 

  startx
.

Read http://www.mozilla.org/binaries.html . At the moment, http://www.mozilla.org/ has links to some of the latest builds, while http://www.mozilla.org/binaries.html has links to even more.

Save the file 

  mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
to some convenient location. [FIXME: Is there a "right" location ???]

At the commant prompt, type 

  tar -xzvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
to create a folder called "package" and put the Good Stuff (TM) in it.

(Alternatively, the above step can be broken into 2 steps: 

  gunzip mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
to uncompress the file, then 
  tar -xvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
)

Then 

  cd package
  ./mozilla -installer
(this imports your bookmarks from version 4.x) fill out the annoying form, and away you go !

Then you can start it at any time by running 

  ./mozilla
(most desktop environments have a way of associating this with a button so you can start mozilla at the click of a button. For example, ... [FIXME].).

[FIXME: Does the installation instruction at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m12.html and http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m13.html and http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m14.html make this file obsolete ? ]

credits

2000-01-22:DAV: incorporated helpful tips from Ben Bucksch http://www.bucksch.org

2000-01-13:DAV: David Cary started.

Last updated: 2000-01-22:DAV.