• General Information

This document contains information about system requirments and installation instructions for the Mozilla Firefox for Tru64 UNIX®.

The Mozilla Firefox for Tru64 UNIX® is subject to the terms detailed in the MPL and LGPL/GPL license agreements accompanying it.

Support for the Mozilla Application Suite for Tru64 UNIX® is covered under your HP Tru64 UNIX® operating system support contract. Contact your Hewlett Packard support organization to submit defect reports and other feedback.

The Bugzilla Web site contains links to known bugs, bug-writing guidelines, and more.

For more information, visit the Mozilla Foundation Web site.

• Getting Mozilla Firefox

You can download the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox for Tru64 UNIX® from the HP Tru64 UNIX® Internet Web site on the "download" tab.

The source code for the Mozilla Firefox is also available for download from this Web site and the Mozilla Foundation Web site. In addition, the sources for this version can be obtain from the Associate Products Source CD-ROM.

For information on building Firefox from the sources, see:


• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/build.html

Be sure to read the Firefox Release Notes for information on known problems and installation issues with the Firefox Milestone builds.

• System Requirements

• All Desktops
  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 Firefox, open the Preferences dialog in the Edit pulldown menu of the Navigator component, select the "Appearence" menu, and then select the "Themes" option. Choose "Modern" from the list of themes displayed and select the OK button on the Preferences dialog.

• Tru64 UNIX®
• HP Tru64 UNIX® 5.1A or higher is required.
• 64MB RAM minimum, 128 MB RAM is recommended.
• 62MB free disk space on the /usr/opt partition
• Java™ SDK 1.4.1 or later is required.
• Glib 1.2.10 or higher and Gtk+ 1.2.10 or higher are required only when not using the installed versions of these libraries (i.e when setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
• Also, using the --disable-shm configure option when building your own Gtk+ libraries is recommended.
• Installation Instructions

For all platforms, install into a clean (new) directory. Installing on top of previously released builds may cause problems.

This software is packaged in setld(8) format and includes two subsets:


1. IAEFIREFOX - Firefox binaries and libraries
2. IAEFIREFOXGRT - Firefox Runtime Support (including the gettext 0.11.50, glib 1.2.10, and gtk+ 1.2.10 shared libraries)

Release notes containing information specific to this version of the Mozilla Firefox for Tru64 UNIX® are installed at:


• file:///usr/doc/firefox/release_notes.html
• Usage Instructions

The Firefox stores user specific application data under the $HOME/.mozilla/firefox directory tree. For Netscape 6 users and users of previous versions of the Firefox it is highly recommended that you save a backup of and remove the $HOME/.mozilla/firefox directory tree before running a newly installed version of the Firefox

After the installation has completed successfully, any user can enter the following command from a terminal window or shell prompt to start the Firefox:


• /usr/bin/X11/firefox

The /usr/bin/X11/firefox shell script sets the mandatory environment variables, MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to the proper values before starting the Firefox. If these environment variables are set in the users environment prior to running /usr/bin/X11/firefox, they override the default values set by the /usr/bin/X11/firefox script. If the optional environment variables, TMPDIR, MOZ_PRINTER_NAME, and MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH are set in the users environment, the /usr/bin/X11/firefox shell script export these environment variables to the Firefox environment.

Passing the "--help" command line option to the /usr/bin/X11/firefox script displays the complete list of available command line options.

You can make the Firefox the default Web client for the system (and for the CDE desktop), by running the /usr/opt/firefox/set_default_client shell script from a terminal window or from the console prompt as the root user.

Once the Firefox has been set as the system default Web client, Netscape Communicator can still be started by running the /usr/bin/X11/netscape4 startup script.

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