========================================================================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = SeaMonkey Read Me = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ========================================================================== SeaMonkey is subject to the terms detailed in the license agreement accompanying it. This Read Me file contains information about system requirements and installation instructions for the Mac OS builds of SeaMonkey. For more info on SeaMonkey, see http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ To submit bugs or other feedback, see the Navigator QA menu and check out Bugzilla at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ for links to known bugs, bug-writing guidelines, and more. You can also get help with Bugzilla by pointing your IRC client to #mozillazine at irc.mozilla.org. ========================================================================== Getting SeaMonkey ========================================================================== You can download nightly builds of SeaMonkey from the mozilla.org FTP site at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/ For the very latest builds, see http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/ Keep in mind that nightly builds, which are used by mozilla.org developers for testing, may be buggy. If you are looking for a more polished version of SeaMonkey, the SeaMonkey project releases builds of SeaMonkey regularly that you can download from http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Be sure to read the SeaMonkey release notes for information on known problems and installation issues with SeaMonkey. The release notes can be found at the preceding URL along with the releases themselves. Note: Please use Talkback builds whenever possible. These builds allow transmission of crash data back to SeaMonkey and Mozilla developers, improved crash analysis, and posting of crash information to our crash-data newsgroup. ========================================================================== System Requirements ========================================================================== * General If you want to view and use the "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, the SeaMonkey project recommends using the "Classic" theme for SeaMonkey. To select the Modern theme after you have installed SeaMonkey, from the browser, open the View menu, then open the Apply Theme submenu and choose Modern. * Mac OS - Mac OS X 10.2 or later - PowerPC processor (266 MHz or faster recommended) - 64 MB RAM - 36 MB of free hard disk space ========================================================================== Installation Instructions ========================================================================== It is strongly recommended that you exit all programs before running the setup program. Also, you should temporarily disable virus-detection software. Install into a clean (new) directory. Installing on top of previously released builds may cause problems. Note: These instructions do not tell you how to build SeaMonkey. For info on building SeaMonkey from the mozilla.org source code, see http://www.mozilla.org/build/ Mac OS X Installation Instructions ---------------------------------- To install SeaMonkey by downloading the SeaMonkey disk image, follow these steps: 1. Click the link to seamonkey-x.xx.en-US.mac.dmg (or similar file name) to download it to your machine. By default, the file is downloaded to your desktop. 2. Once you have downloaded the .dmg file, if the disk image doesn't mount automatically, double-click on the .dmg file to mount it. If that fails, and the file does not look like a disk image file, do a "Show Info" on the file, and, in the "Open with application" category, choose Disk Copy. You can also use "Open with" from the context menu. 3. Once the disk image mounts, open it, and drag the SeaMonkey icon onto your hard disk. 4. We recommend that you copy it to the Applications folder. 5. Now Eject the disk image. 6. If you like, you can drag SeaMonkey to your dock to have it easily accessible at all times. You might also wish to select SeaMonkey as your default browser in the Internet system preferences pane (under the Web tab).