Introduction
Mozilla is an open source web browser. It is available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and a bunch of other operating systems. The Mozilla browser is the most visible product of the Mozilla project. Bugzilla is a bug tracking system that was also created by the Mozilla project. When Netscape opened the source code to Netscape Navigator, it became known as Mozilla. Much of the old Navigator code has been scrapped in order to make the browser faster and more stable. Keep in mind that Mozilla is a work in progress and as such, it is not considered officially stable at this point.
Mozilla Installation
Download Mozilla
Mozilla can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. Under the heading Mozilla 0.9.5, you will see a section called Linux. The top one is listed as x86 Talkback enabled Net Installer, which has a nice graphical installer. However, the graphical installer causes segmentation faults for me when I run it. I recommend that you download the second one listed as x86 tar.gz format or RPMS for Red Hat Linux if you are running a Linux distribution based on RPM.
Installing Mozilla 0.9.5
From tar.gz
Even though the page says the file is gzip compressed, it is actually a tar file. You can run the command file mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.5.tar.gz to determine what type of file it is.
If it is a tar file use the command tar -xvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.5.tar.gz, and if it is a gzip compressed file use the command tar -xzvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.5.tar.gz to expand the file.
cd mozilla
./run-mozilla.sh &
From RPM
After clicking on the link to the RPM, click the i386 link. Download all the RPMs into a directory without any other RPMs.
rpm -Uvh mozilla*.rpm
Screenshots:
The Mozilla web browser:
Where to Download
Mozilla Home Page (http://www.mozilla.org/)
Mozilla Download Page (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/)
