NCSA Mosaic Documentation

This document is the entry point for documentation on NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System.

Please note that this documentation is not yet up to date for version 2.0.

For general information and answers to commonly asked questions, see the FAQ list. Please read the FAQ; a lot of information is in there. If you have unresolved questions or problems, feel free to mail mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Documentation on the following parts of NCSA Mosaic is currently available:

Other documentation that may be of interest includes: NEW! Tutorials on using features in Mosaic 2.0:

Also see What's New for Mosaic.

Special Note on Hangs

With Mosaic 2.0, any stage of any network query (with a couple of exceptions; see below) can be interrupted. Simply click on the twirling globe icon in the upper right corner of the screen at any time to interrupt an ongoing or hung network operation.

The exceptions are certain stages of a direct WAIS query, and hostname resolution lookups. But note that connections to down or nonexistent hosts, document transfers, and inlined image transfers can all be interrupted easily and cleanly.