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A number of graphical Web browsers are available for Linux. The defaultbrowser included with each of the distributions covered in this book is: Fedora:Firefox (www.mozilla.org/products/firefox, based onMozilla) Knoppix:Konqueror (www.konqueror.org), though Mozilla is alsoincluded by default Linspire:Customized Mozilla Mandrake:Konqueror, though Mozilla and Epiphany (www.gnome.org/ projects/epiphany, which is based on Mozilla as well) are also bothincluded by default SuSE:Konqueror Xandros:MozillaYou can easily add the browsers that aren t included by default to most ofthese distributions (see Chapter 12). Another popular browser in Linux isOpera (www.opera.com). Many browsers are based on Mozilla, aren t they? And Mozilla is a branch offof Netscape. Because Mozilla is included with so many of these distributions(and can be easily added to the rest), I focus on it here. Mozilla is actuallymore complex than both its Epiphany and Firefox love-children, and so you llfind those other options easier to figure out and Epiphany and Firefox alsowork very similarly to Mozilla. In fact, Firefox doesn t have the same hugepile of configuration routines in its Preferences dialog box because it doesn thave mail and news to contend with. Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera are all available for Windows and OS X as well! Configuring MozillaYou can start surfing right now, if you want. You don t need to customize yourbrowser. However, you may want to take a moment to tell Mozilla your prefer- ences, such as the default Web site to show when it starts up, what font sizesto use by default, what colors to use, and many other options. The following steps introduce you to the Preferences window, where all theMozilla configuration parameters are stored: 1.Start Mozilla. How you start Mozilla depends on which distribution you re using. Typically it s either a shortcut on your Panel (Knoppix, Linspire, andXandros) or is available in the Internet portion of your main menu. Bepatient; Mozilla is a large program, and it usually takes a few seconds to start up. 166Part II:Internet Now!