Welcome to the Mozilla Client Customization Kit (CCK)!

Using the CCK tool is the easiest and fastest way to customize Mozilla and build a customized Mozilla 1.4.1 installer. If you've never used the CCK tool before, it's a great way to familiarize yourself with the most popular customizations and the customization process.

Guide to Customizing and Distributing Mozilla 1.4.1 provides detailed information about the CCK tool as well as information about additional customizations you can perform manually. You can find this document on the website:

Select an Existing Configuration or Create a New One

If you are modifying an existing configuration, you must select its name from the drop-down menu near the bottom left of the welcome screen before proceeding.

Show Config Info. Click this button to see what customizations you've already completed for the configuration whose name is currently displayed to the left.

New Configuration. Click this button to create a new configuration. (You will need to do this if this is your first time running the CCK tool.) Enter the name of your configuration in the Create New Configuration dialog box and click Create New Configuration. The CCK tool then creates a new directory using the name you entered for the new configuration.

The CCK tool creates your new configuration directory in the location

installation_directory\CCKTool\Configs\my_config

where installation_directory is the directory you specified while installing the tool, and my_config is the configuration name you specified after clicking New Configuration as described above.

Within your new configuration directory, the CCK tool automatically creates the Output and Workspace subdirectories. The Output directory is where the CCK tool will create your customized Mozilla installer. You can use the Workspace directory as a convenient place in which to store your customized files. It contains the following subdirectories:

AnimLogo directory: stores the four .GIF files associated with the animated logo button.
Autorun directory: stores a custom background image for the CD Autorun screen.
Bkmarks directory: stores a custom bookmarks file for the Navigator browser.
CustInst directory: stores additional installers (in the form of self-extracting executable files) that will run after the main installation completes.
Sidebar directory: stores the custom sidebar panels file

For more information about the configuration directory, read the chapter in Use the Configuration Workspace for Customized Files in the Guide to Customizing and Distributing Mozilla 1.4.1. You can find this document on the website:

Create a Copy. Click this button to create a copy of the currently selected configuration. This option lets you create a new customized installer, based on an existing configuration, without overwriting the existing configuration (similar to a "Save As" operation).

Feedback. Click this button to go to a web page where you can provide feedback about the CCK Tool.

Next. Each time you click Next in a CCK screen, the information you entered or changed on that screen gets automatically saved with the selected configuration.

Exit. Click this button to exit the CCK Tool. When you click this button on the first screen, none of the information you may have specified will be saved.

7/31/2003