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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. ---------------------------------------------------------- Permission is granted for the above article to forward, reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website, offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as long as no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and the resource box below is included. ---------------------------------------------------------- Resource Box: Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintain your computer and use it more effectively to design a Web site and make money on the Web visit http://bucarotechelp.com To subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blank email to bucarotechelp-subscribe@topica.com

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