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while (while I'm there mentions both Firfox 2.X and 3.X).
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Browsers (such as <application>Mozilla</application>,
<para>Browsers (such as <application>Firefox</application>,
<application>Opera</application>,
<application>Firefox</application>,
<application>Konqueror</application>)</para>
</listitem>
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<tbody>
<row>
<entry><application>Mozilla</application></entry>
<entry>heavy</entry>
<entry>heavy</entry>
<entry><application>Gtk+</application></entry>
<entry><application>Firefox</application></entry>
<entry>medium</entry>
<entry>heavy</entry>
<entry><application>Gtk+</application></entry>
</row>
<row>
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<application>linux-openmotif</application>.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><application>Firefox</application></entry>
<entry>medium</entry>
<entry>heavy</entry>
<entry><application>Gtk+</application></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><application>Konqueror</application></entry>
<entry>medium</entry>
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</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<sect2>
<title>Mozilla</title>
<indexterm>
<primary><application>Mozilla</application></primary>
</indexterm>
<para><application>Mozilla</application> is a modern,
stable browser that is fully ported to FreeBSD: it features a very
standards-compliant HTML display engine; it provides a mail
and news reader. It even has a HTML composer if you plan to
write some web pages yourself. Users of
<application>&netscape;</application> will recognize the
similarities with the <application>Communicator</application>
suite, as both browsers share some development history.</para>
<para>On slow machines, with a CPU speed less than 233MHz or
with less than 64MB of RAM, <application>Mozilla</application>
can be too resource-demanding to be fully usable. You may
want to look at the <application>Opera</application> browser
instead, described a little later in this chapter.</para>
<para>If you cannot or do not want to compile
<application>Mozilla</application>, for whatever reason, the FreeBSD
GNOME team has already done this for you. Just install the
package from the network by:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r mozilla</userinput></screen>
<para>If the package is not available, and you have enough time
and disk space, you can get the source for
<application>Mozilla</application>, compile it and install it
on your system. This is accomplished by:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
<para>The <application>Mozilla</application> port ensures a
correct initialization by running the chrome registry setup
with <username>root</username> privileges. However, if you
want to fetch some add-ons like mouse gestures, you must run
<application>Mozilla</application> as
<username>root</username> to get them properly
installed.</para>
<para>Once you have completed the installation of
<application>Mozilla</application>, you do not need to be
<username>root</username> any longer. You can start
<application>Mozilla</application> as a browser by typing:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>mozilla</userinput></screen>
<para>You can start it directly as a mail and news reader as
shown below:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>mozilla -mail</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Firefox</title>
<indexterm>
<primary><application>Firefox</application></primary>
</indexterm>
<para><application>Firefox</application> is the next-generation
browser based on the <application>Mozilla</application>
codebase. <application>Mozilla</application> is a complete
suite of applications, such as a browser, a mail client, a chat
client and much more. <application>Firefox</application> is
just a browser, which makes it smaller and faster.</para>
<para><application>Firefox</application> is a modern, free,
open-source stable browser that is fully ported to &os;: it
features a very standards-compliant HTML display engine,
tabbed browsing, popup blocking, extensions, improved
security, and more. <application>Firefox</application> is
based on the <application>Mozilla</application>
codebase.</para>
<para>Install the package by typing:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r firefox</userinput></screen>
<para>This will install <application>Firefox</application> 2.X,
if you want to run <application>Firefox</application> 3.X,
use instead:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r firefox3</userinput></screen>
<para>You can also use the Ports Collection if you
prefer to compile from source code:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/firefox</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
<para>For <application>Firefox</application> 3.X, in the
previous command replace <literal>firefox</literal> with
<literal>firefox3</literal>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="moz-java-plugin">
<title>Firefox, Mozilla and &java; plugin</title>
<title>Firefox and &java; plugin</title>
<note>
<para>In this section and in the next one, we assume you have
already installed <application>Firefox</application> or
<application>Mozilla</application>.</para>
already installed <application>Firefox</application>.</para>
</note>
<para>The &os; Foundation has a license with Sun Microsystems to
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Foundation</ulink> web site.</para>
<para>To add &java; support to
<application>Firefox</application> or
<application>Mozilla</application>, you first have to install
<application>Firefox</application>, you first have to install
the <filename
role="package">java/javavmwrapper</filename> port. Then,
download the <application>Diablo &jre;</application> package
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<sect2 id="moz-flash-plugin">
<title>Firefox, Mozilla and &macromedia; &flash; plugin</title>
<title>Firefox and &macromedia; &flash; plugin</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>Flash</primary>
</indexterm>
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</sect2>
<sect2 id="moz-swfdec-flash-plugin">
<title>Firefox, Mozilla and Swfdec &flash; plugin</title>
<title>Firefox and Swfdec &flash; plugin</title>
<para>Swfdec is the library for decoding and rendering &flash; animations.
And Swfdec-Mozilla is a plugin for <application>Mozilla</application>
And Swfdec-Mozilla is a plugin for <application>Firefox</application>
browsers that uses the Swfdec library for playing SWF files.
It is still in heavy development.</para>