Hardware Prerequisites

Mozilla for OpenVMS is available only on the Alpha platform.

If you encounter color problems when running Mozilla on an 8-plane video mode system, it is likely that you are running another application that uses a large number of colors (Navigator V3 is such an application). In this situation, start Mozilla before you start the other application. These problems usually do not occur on a 16 or 24-plane video mode system.

Software Prerequisites

The following software is required in order to successfully run Mozilla:

Account Quotas

• PGFLQUOTA

  PGFLQUOTA is the most important process quota to check. Following is an estimate of the PGFLQUOTA you need:

  • 50,000 -- starts mozilla-bin (formerly called apprunner) and displays a simple page
  • 80,000 -- displays a couple of normal pages
  • 150,000 or more -- runs mail, can view complex pages

• FILLM

  The default value of FILLM is 100, which is not normally enough to run Mozilla. To successfully run Mozilla, do one of the following:

  • Increase the account's FILLM to at least 200.
  • Use the supplied INSTALL.COM to install Mozilla. If you use INSTALL.COM, the default FILLM of 100 is then sufficient to run Mozilla.

System Parameters

Mozilla.org Release Notes

Upgrading from a Previous Mozilla Kit

Enter the commands described in this section if you are upgrading from the M10 kit (released in October 1999) to M17. If you are upgrading from a kit other than M10 to this baselevel (M17), you can skip this section.

To upgrade from M10 to the M17 kit, before you install M17 you must remove any Mozilla profiles that were created in M10.

To remove the M10 profiles, go to your SYS$LOGIN directory and delete the entire _MOZILLA directory tree, as follows:

$ SET DEFAULT SYS$LOGIN $ DELETE [._MOZILLA...]*.*;*

You must enter the delete command several times to completely remove the contents of the _MOZILLA directory tree.

Downloading the Kit

The Mozilla for OpenVMS software is available for the Alpha platform as a compressed self-extracting file.

Expanding the Kit

To expand the Mozilla for OpenVMS self-extracting file, enter the following command:

$ RUN MOZILLA-OPENVMS-ALPHA-M17.SFX_AXPEXE

The system expands the file and names the decompressed file CPQ-AXPVMS-MOZILLA-H0500--1.PCSI. Do not rename this file.

Note: If you expand the kit on an ODS-5 disk, the filename defaults to lowercase. PCSI requires all uppercase characters. Rename the file to the same name, but containing all uppercase characters, before you begin the installation.

Use the following procedure to start the installation.

Note: If many users want to run Mozilla on the same system, they can all run from the same installation. User specific information is maintained in a user profile, and these are stored in each user's SYS$LOGIN tree.

You must install Mozilla into a top-level directory. If you do not accept the PCSI default destination, make sure that you do not attempt to install Mozilla into a sub-directory.

If you have a previous Mozilla kit installed, it will be automatically removed before the M17 kit is installed.

To install the Mozilla for OpenVMS Alpha kit, enter the following command:

$ PRODUCT INSTALL MOZILLA /SOURCE=KITS

For a description of the features you can request with the PRODUCT INSTALL command when starting an installation such as running the IVP, purging files, and configuring the installation, see the POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility User's Guide.

As the installation procedure progresses, the system displays the following information.

Note that this output shows the installation of H5.0 (M17). In this example, G5.0 (M16) was previously installed, so PCSI automatically removes G5.0.

1 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA H5.0 Layered Product 2 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA G5.0 Layered Product 3 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA F5.0 Layered Product 4 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA E5.0 Layered Product 5 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA D5.0 Layered Product 6 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA C5.0 Layered Product 7 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA B5.0 Layered Product 8 - CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA A5.0 Layered Product 9 - All products listed above 0 - Exit Choose one or more items from the menu separated by commas: 1 The following product has been selected: CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA H5.0 Layered Product Do you want to continue? [YES] Configuration phase starting ... You will be asked to choose options, if any, for each selected product and for any products that may be installed to satisfy software dependency requirements. CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA H5.0 * This product does not have any configuration options. Mozilla for OpenVMS Alpha You MUST confirm that the required ECOs are installed! Please review the list of ECO's documented in the Release Notes. Do you want to continue? [YES] Execution phase starting ... The following product will be installed to destination: CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA H5.0 DISK$ALPHASYS:[VMS$COMMON.] The following product will be removed from destination: CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA G5.0 DISK$ALPHASYS:[VMS$COMMON.] Portion done: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% The following product has been installed: CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA H5.0 Layered Product The following product has been removed: CPQ AXPVMS MOZILLA G5.0 Layered Product $

The main Mozilla application in the kit is Mozilla-bin (formerly named apprunner). Mozilla-bin is the full browser with extensions, and closely resembles Netscape Communicator.™ Mozilla-bin contains:

• Navigator -- Web Browser
• Composer -- HTML page editor
• Messenger -- Mail client
• Newsgroups -- News client

You invoke the Mozilla-bin application through the supplied MOZILLA.COM command file. To invoke Mozilla-bin, enter the following:

$ @SYS$COMMON:[MOZILLA]MOZILLA

This assumes that you installed the kit to the default location. If you directed PCSI to install to a different location, then your command to start MOZILLA will contain a different disk or directory.

You can also pass arguments to the application. For example:

$ @SYS$COMMON:[MOZILLA]MOZILLA "http://www.openvms.compaq.com" $ @SYS$COMMON:[MOZILLA]MOZILLA "-edit" $ @SYS$COMMON:[MOZILLA]MOZILLA """-ProfileManager"""

Note that any argument that is case-sensitive (such as ProfileManager in the previous example) must be enclosed in three sets of quotation marks.

When you run Mozilla, the system must have approximately 336 global pages and one global section available. A check is made when you invoke Mozilla. If these requirements are not met, a warning is issued and terminating Mozilla is recommended.

When running Mozilla, you will see messages similar to the following appear in the terminal output. These are normal for the M17 release.

$ @sys$common:[mozilla]mozilla Starting mozilla-bin... WEBSHELL+ = 1 WEBSHELL+ = 2 CSSLoaderImpl::LoadAgentSheet: Load of URL 'file:///alpha%24dka0/users/cblake/.mozilla/default/chrome/user.css' failed. Error code: 16389 WEBSHELL+ = 3 WEBSHELL+ = 4 Setting content window *** Pulling out the charset Loading page specified via openDialog in SetSecurityButton Document: Done (20.933 secs) *** check number of frames in content area Document http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/ loaded successfully WEBSHELL- = 3 WEBSHELL- = 2 WEBSHELL- = 1 WEBSHELL- = 0 $

Many other messages are displayed when using the Navigator, Mail/News and Composer components of Mozilla. This is normal for this milestone release.

This section contains notes on the current release of Mozilla.

• Helper Applications Not Supported

  A new feature in the M17 release from Mozilla.org is support for helper apps. For example, if you want Mozilla to use a PDF viewer to display a PDF file, you would configure the PDF viewer as a helper app.

  Support for helper apps is not included in Mozilla for OpenVMS M17. We expect to include support for helper apps in the near future.

• Leave Messages on Server

  In M13 and higher beta kits, the Pop3 "Leave Messages On Server" feature works. The default value is false. This means that messages are deleted from the server when they are downloaded to the local mail folder. In M12 and earlier beta kits, messages always remained on the server regardless of the user preference setting.

  Important: To prevent the messages from being deleted, click on Edit | Accounts Setup | Pop 3 Server and then check "Leave Messages On Server".

This section contains notes on how to improve the performance of Mozilla.

• Disable Disk Cache

  If you have a fast network connection, or if your system is particularly slow, Mozilla may perform better if you disable the disk cache. (By default, both the memory cache and disk caches are enabled.) To disable the disk cache, perform the following:

  1. Select Edit | Preferences.
  2. In the pop-up preferences panel, select Advanced | Cache.
  3. In the pane on the right, set the size of the disk cache to 0 KBytes.
  4. While in this panel, click on "Clear Disk Cache" to remove the files that are currently in your disk cache.
  5. Select OK.

Netscape 6 on OpenVMS