Guide Note

The open-source software development organization Mozilla created the Firefox Web browser. Mozilla is also the developer of applications such as Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Bugzilla, Camino, Sunbird and Minimo.

Fast Facts

Organization founded: 1998
July 15, 2003: Officially founded as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation
Mozilla Corporation founded: August 3, 2005
Mozilla Corporation CEO: John Lilly
Headquarters: Mountain View, California
Phone: (650) 903-0800¹
Revenue: $66.8 million in 2006²
Mozilla was the codename for the Netscape Browser³
Netscape's Tyrannosaurus mascot was named Mozilla

History

Netscape made the code of its Communicator browser suite open-source in March 1998. The Mozilla Organization was then created to develop a browser from this code. It released a browser suite named Mozilla on June 5, 2002, but later changed its focus to the standalone browser Mozilla Firefox.

In 2003, the Mozilla Organization officially launched as the 501(c)(3) non-profit Mozilla Foundation to continue projects based on the Mozilla Suite source code. In August of 2005, the foundation created a for-profit arm called Mozilla Corporation to handle Firefox marketing and distribution, and in 2008 it created another for-profit arm called Mozilla Messaging.

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PC Magazine: Latest Version of Firefox 3.0 Goes to Developers (December 19, 2007)
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ZDNet: Microsoft doesn't 'own' the Web, says Mozilla
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