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Tips and Tricks for Mozilla

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• Downloading Mozilla
• Blocking Pop-Ups
• Enabling Favicons
• Enabling Real Player
• Enabling Java
• Enabling Flash
• Moving/Backing up email
• Changing menu and button language
• Enabling Adobe Acrobat Reader

• Where can I get Mozilla?
  
  The latest milestone (stable) version of Mozilla - Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1) - became available on April 18, 2002. MozTips has created a convenient download table for you.
  
  
• How do I block Pop-Ups (often known as "pop-up advertisements")?
  
  Go to the Edit menu, click on Preferences and then double click on Advanced. Then click on Scripts and Windows and uncheck Open unrequested windows under Allow scripts to:. Then click OK to save these changes. You are done (no more popups)! For a visual illustration of this, check out page 16 of the Mozilla Tour.
• How do I disable / enable Favorite Icons (favicons)? (Answer coming soon.)
  
• How do I get [the] Real Player [plug-in] to work in Mozilla?
  

  Darnell contributed the following information in Mozillazine: He recommends downloading and installing the slighter older Real Player 8 (download: official site, unoffical site) (as opposed to the newer Real Player One.) (More information on RealOne is at the end of this section.) If you have Netscape 4.78 (as Darnell does), Real Player 8 copies the following file into the Netscape 4.78 plugin directory: nppl3260.dll (the Real Player plugin). Important: If you already have Netscape 6, you should find nppl3260.dll in the following directory(and therefore may not need to download and install Real Player 8):

  C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape 6\components

  If you do not have Netscape 6 already installed, the Real Player installer will not copy the necessary dll file to any location on your computer. Nicola di Nisio contributed the following information in Mozillazine, for getting Real Player to work, when you do not have any version of Netscape also installed: You need to first download this special version of Real Player from Netscape's FTP site. After you unzip and install real player ( Help with installing Real Player 8 for Windows and the Macintosh), it will ask you to restart your computer (unlike other versions of Real Player). It will not have installed the nppl3260.dll file to our mozilla plugins directory, but will have copied the file to a temporary directory named ~rnsetup4. Go to the Start menu, then click on Find | Files and Folders, and then enter nppl3260.dll and click "Find Now". Once you have located where the file has been saved, copy it to your Mozilla plugins directory, as explained below.

  To enable the Real Player plugin in Mozilla, you need to copy nppl3260.dll to your Mozilla plugin directory, which on Windows is usually found here:

  C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins

  There is also another "Application Data" directory for Mozilla on Windows which is usually found here:

  C:\Documents and Settings\*yourprofilename*\Application Data\Mozilla\Plugins\

  If you copy plug-in files to this directory instead (of the Mozilla plugin directory), writes Asa in Mozillazine, Mozilla will retain them, even when you upgrade to a newer Mozilla version.

  After you have copied the plugin to the Mozilla plugin directory, restart Mozilla, go to the Help menu, and choose "About Plugins". If you see something like the following picture, you've succeeded!

  
  
  Hendikins contributed the following information about getting RealOne (the latest version of Real Player to work with Mozilla). Note: There have been problems reported with getting RealOne to work with Mozilla. If you already have the Real Player 8 plugin installed with Netscape 4.x or netscape 6.x, I would recommend using the proceedure described above (and not upgrading to RealOne).

  Minimum version required: 6.0 (RealPlayer G2)
  Installer detects Mozilla builds: Yes (Version 9.0, / RealOne)
  Installer detects Netscape 6: Yes
  Installer allows selection of plugins directory: No
  Requires 4.x to be present: No
  Works with Mozilla 0.9.8: Yes
  Version tested: 9.0 (RealOne)

  
  Installation instructions for RealOne:
  Go to RealNetworks website http://www.real.com
  Run installer. Plugin is automatically installed and configured by RealOne Installer.

  
  
• How do I make Java work in Mozilla?

  Hendikins contributed some of the following information about getting Java to work in Mozilla, which I updated (Thanks Hendikins!).

  Name of Plugin: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) / Java Plugin
  
  Minimum version required: 1.3.0_01
  Installer detects Mozilla builds: No / Unsure
  Installer detects Netscape 6: Yes
  Installer allows selection of plugins directory: No
  Requires 4.x to be present: No
  Works with Mozilla 1.0 RC 1: Yes
  Versions tested: 1.3.1, 1.4.0rc
  
  Note: If you have trouble getting ICQ Lite (the Java version of ICQ) to work with Mozilla (it loads but you cannot send messages, or does not load), and you think you have the Java plugin installed, you probably need to first remove the old version of the Java Plugin you have (version 1.3 ?), and then upgrade to the latest (1.4.0) version.
  
  Installation instructions:
  1.Determine if you have the Java Plugin installed by going to Help | About Plugins. If you do not have an entry for the Java Plugin there, then either you do not have the plugin installed, or it is installed, but not recognised by Mozilla.
  
  2. If no references to Java are found in step 1, and if you have a version of Netscape 6 which loads Java applets okay - i.e. is Java-enabled - (or if you have already installed the Java plugin from Netscape's website when prompted), proceed to step 3. If if you don't think you have the Java plugin installed, doublecheck  by going to step 3.
  
  3. Go to Start|Settings| Control Panel | Add / Remove Programs. Scroll through the list and look for "Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE 1.4.0." You should see something like the following:
  

  
  

  
  Make a note of whether this entry is listed there or not. Then press "Cancel". Note: If you do see this entry do not click Add/Remove! If you found this entry, it means you have the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment installed (but it is not yet recognized by Mozilla). If you did not find this entry(or a similar one), proceed to step 6.
  
  4. Search for NPOJI610.DLL by going to Start Menu| Find | Files or Folders, and copy it to Mozilla's plugin directory. Mozilla's plugin directory is ususally found here:

  C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins

  
  5. If you could not find the above mentioned file, search for this similarly named file: NPOJI600.DLL . If you find this file, it means you have an older version of the Java Runtime Environment, which should still work with Mozilla (although much more slowly than the latest version). Copy this file to Mozilla's plugin directory (as listed in step 4).
  
  6. If you could not find either of the above mentioned files, and if you have no Java Plugin entry in Help| About Plugins, it means you need to download the Java Runtime Environment (Java Plugin) 1.4.0 installer from Sun's website.
  
  7. Dowload the Java Runtime Environment Plugin (version 1.4.0) from Sun Microsystems' website. Install the plugin.
  
  8. Restart Mozilla, and check Help | About Plugins. If you see an entry for the Java Plugin such as the following, you have succeeded:
  
  
  9. If you don't see such an entry, search for NPOJI610.DLL, and copy it to Mozilla's plugin directory (as explained in step 4). Restart Mozilla.
  

  For more information (or if this did not help you), check out Gemal's Java-for-Mozilla Website. Also check out Nicolás Lichtmaier cross platform Java and Flash installer.
• How do I make Macromedia Flash ( more information on Flash or download Flash player)work in Mozilla?
  
  Hendikins contributed some of the following information (Thanks Hendikins!):

  Macromedia Flash
  
  Minimum version required: 4.0
  Mozilla detects installed plugin: Yes (Usually)
  Installer detects Mozilla builds: No
  Installer detects Netscape 6: No
  Installer allows selection of plugins directory: Yes
  Requires 4.x to be present: No
  Works with Mozilla 1.0 RC1: Yes
  Version tested: 5.0
  Plugin (DLL) name: NPSWF32.dll
  
  Note: Mozilla 1.0 RC1 automatically detected the Flash plugin (NPSWF32.dll) which was installed to my Opera 6 directory and "imported" it. First check Help | About plugins to see if you have the Flash plugin installed. If not, then proceed with the following instructions.
  
  Installation instructions:
  1. Download the installer
  2. Manually select (or confirm) Mozilla's plugins directory. It is usually:

  C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins

  
  3. Ignore the error message about NETSCAPE.EXE not being found.
  4. Test the plugin by looking for a Flash plugin entry under Help|About Plugins or by going to Macromedia's website.

  My Help|About Plugins entry for Flash looks like this:
  
  
  Also, check out our copy of Gunnar's post (and others') in Mozillazine.
  If this did not work for you, please check out Nicolás Lichtmaier cross platform Java and Flash installer.
• How do I move Mozilla/Netscape email ("mailboxes") from one computer to another? How do I backup my existing Mozilla email files?Try Mailbag Assistant from Fookes Software. This software lets you import (open) your Netscape and Mozilla mailbox files, and save and use them for later use. If you would like a searchable, backed up copy of all you emails, or would like to export your emails to a text file, then Mailbag Assistant is the perfect tool. It is shareware, and since it has helped me so much, I have already registered my own copy.

  If you are looking to move/backup your email files from Outlook Express (or another program), Mailbag Assistant can help you too. It can read the following formats: Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape 4, Netscape 6 (Mozilla), Pegasus, The Bat!, Forte Agent, Calypso, Poco, FoxMail, and EML message files.

  Note: On Windows, your Mozilla eMail files are usually found here:
  C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\*your profile name*\*something*.slt\Mail

• How do I switch the language for menus and buttons in Mozilla easily(i.e. without redownloading a different language version of Mozilla?) Go to the following site: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html#contrib Then look for the appropriate 'language pack', and click on it. Then click on okay to have that language pack installed.
• How do I make Adobe Acrobat Reader work with Mozilla? Hendikins contributed the following information about getting Adobe Acrobat Reader to work( Thank You!):

  Minimum version required: 4.0
  Installer detects Mozilla builds: Yes
  Installer detects Netscape 6: Yes
  Installer allows selection of plugins directory: No
  Requires Netscape 4.x to be present: No
  Works with Mozilla 0.9.8: Yes
  Version tested: 5.0.5

  Steps required to get Adobe Acrobat working:
  
  1) Go to Help | About Plugins and verify that no plugin for Adobe Acrobat is already installed. (If you don't see any entry for Adobe Acrobat here, then it is not being recognised by Mozilla.)
  2) If you have previously downloaded or installed Adobe Acrobat Reader, proceed to step 5, otherwise Download Adobe Acrobat Reader
  3) Install Adobe Acrobat Reader
  4) Restart (your computer and) Mozilla and check Help | About Plugins or visit a site with a PDF (Acrobat) document.
  5) If Adobe Acrobat is still not detected (it is unclear if Adobe Acrobat Reader always detects Mozilla), go to the Start menu, choose Find | Files or Folders and enter nppdf32.dll . Once you have located this file, copy it to Mozilla's plugin directory, which is usually found here:
  

  C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins

  There is also another "Application Data" directory for Mozilla on Windows which is usually found here:

  C:\Documents and Settings\*yourprofilename*\Application Data\Mozilla\Plugins\

  If you copy plug-in files to this directory instead (of the Mozilla plugin directory), writes Asa in Mozillazine, Mozilla will retain them, even when you upgrade to a newer Mozilla version.

  6)Restart Mozilla, Restart (your computer and) Mozilla and check Help | About Plugins or visit a site with a PDF (Acrobat) document.
  

Contributor: Michael Hendy (Hendikins) ; check out Hendikins great Mozilla plugin documentation site, Plugindoc . Information for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

  

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