Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, currently known as SeaMonkey suite. The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named Seamonkey) is a free, cross-platform internet suite, whose components include a web browser, an e-mail and news client, an HTML editor, and an IRC client. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... For other uses, see Seamonkey. ... Internet suite - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

In informal use it has been used in a number of ways and in combination with other phrases, though all of them have been related to the now-defunct Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ...

Only three things have ever formally used the term "Mozilla" alone:

• the codename for the Netscape Navigator software project
• the official name of what was re-named Mozilla Application Suite
• the Mascot of Netscape.

The various other related uses of the term "Mozilla" are listed below in the order when they were first used.

Codename of Netscape Navigator

Main article: Netscape Navigator

Historically, Mozilla had been used internally as a codename for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning. Jamie Zawinski came up with the name during a meeting while working at the company.^[1] It was a contraction of Mosaic killer (that is, the slang "killa" leading to Moz+illa), referring to the hope that the project would unseat Mosaic as the web's most popular browser, and making reference to the name of the classic fictional monster Godzilla. Netscape Navigator, also known as Netscape, was a proprietary web browser that was popular during the 1990s. ... Netscape Navigator, also known as Netscape, was a proprietary web browser that was popular during the 1990s. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... Jamie W. Zawinski (born 1971 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is a computer programmer responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the proprietary Netscape Navigator web browser. ... This article is about the browser produced by NCSA. For the browser that was later renamed, see Netscape Navigator. ... This article is about the character itself. ...

Mascot of Netscape

Main article: Mozilla (mascot)

Mozilla was the mascot of the now-disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation, formerly called Mosaic Communications Corporation. Initially, the mascot took various forms, including that of a helmeted astronaut or "spaceman", but the eventual choice was a Godzilla-like lizard thought to go well with the Godzilla-like name. It was designed by Dave Titus in 1994. Mozilla was the mascot of the now disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation. ... Image File history File links Mozilla_Mascot. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... For other uses, see Astronaut (disambiguation). ...

Mozilla was featured prominently on Netscape's website in the company's early years. However, the need to project a more "professional" image (especially towards corporate clients) led to it being removed. Mozilla continued to be used inside Netscape, though, often featuring on T-shirts given to staff or on artwork adorning the walls of the Netscape campus in Mountain View. A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ...

When Netscape acquired the website directory NewHoo in 1998, they rebranded it the Open Directory Project with the nickname "dmoz" (Directory of Mozilla) due to its similarity to the Mozilla project. An image of Mozilla was placed on every page of the site, which remains the case today, despite Netscape's disbanding after its acquisition by AOL. The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

Part of "user agent string" of many browsers

Main article: User agent string

When users visit a website (via a user agent such as a web browser), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server. It is known as the "user agent string". The Netscape web browser identified itself as "Mozilla/<version>" followed by some information about the operating system it was running on. A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. ... In computer programming and formal language theory, (and other branches of mathematics), a string is an ordered sequence of symbols. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are... An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ...

Because the Netscape browser initially implemented many features not available in other browsers and quickly came to dominate the market, a number of web sites were designed to work, or work fully, only when they detected an appropriate version of Mozilla in the user agent string. Thus, competing browsers began to emulate ("cloak" or "spoof") this string in order to also work with those sites. The earliest example of this is Internet Explorer's use of a user agent string beginning "Mozilla/<version> (compatible; MSIE <version>...", in order to receive content intended for Netscape, its main rival at the time of its development. This format of user agent string has since been copied by other user agents, and persisted even after Internet Explorer came to dominate the browser market. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In the context of network security, a spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage. ... Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE), commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ...

See also: Browser wars

The term browser wars is the name given to the competition for dominance in the web browser marketplace. ...

Mozilla project

Mozilla Foundation

Main article: Mozilla Foundation

"Mozilla" is sometimes used to refer to the free software/open source project that was founded in order to create the next-generation Internet suite for Netscape. The Mozilla Organization was founded in 1998 to create the new suite. On July 15, 2003, the organization was formally registered as a non-profit organization, and became Mozilla Foundation. The foundation now creates and maintains the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email application, among other software. The Mozilla trademark is held by the Mozilla Foundation as of 2006. The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... The logo of Mozilla Foundation. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Internet suite - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Mozilla Organization (mozilla. ... is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... Firefox redirects here. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ...

Mozilla Corporation

Main article: Mozilla Corporation

On August 3, 2005, Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of Mozilla Corporation, a wholly owned for-profit taxable subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation, that primarily focuses on delivering Firefox to end users. It will also oversee marketing and sponsorship of the products. The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by the... is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by the... Taxes redirects here. ... A subsidiary, in business, is an entity that is controlled by another entity. ... Next big thing redirects here. ... Sponsorship can refer to several concepts: A sponsors support of an event, activity, person, or organization. ...

Mozilla Messaging

Main article: Mozilla Messaging

On February 19, 2008, Mozilla Messaging was announced, which like Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. Its focus will be on Thunderbird and possibly developing software related to other Internet communication media. [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mozilla Application Suite

Main article: Mozilla Application Suite

Mozilla 1.7 showing Wikipedia's main page

Netscape announced on January 22, 1998 that it would be relicensing its source code for future development.^[2] In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code for its popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite under a free software/open source license, the Netscape Public License. The application developed from this was named Mozilla, as this was the codename of the original Netscape Navigator. After a series of lengthy pre-1.0 cycles, Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5, 2002. The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named Seamonkey) is a free, cross-platform internet suite, whose components include a web browser, an e-mail and news client, an HTML editor, and an IRC client. ... A screenshot of Mozilla 1. ... A screenshot of Mozilla 1. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. ... Netscape Communicator was a proprietary Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. ... Internet suite - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Netscape Public License (NPL) is a free software license, the license under which Netscape Communications Corporation originally released Mozilla. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

The suite was well known as the free/open source base of the Netscape suite (versions 6 and 7), and its underlying code (most notably the Gecko layout engine) became the base of many standalone applications, including the Mozilla Foundation's flagship products Firefox and Thunderbird. To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is often marketed as "Mozilla Application Suite", or the more concise "Mozilla Suite". Netscape was a proprietary cross-platform Internet suite created by Netscape Communications Corporation and then in-house by AOL to continue the Netscape series after Netscape 6. ... Epiphany using Gecko to render the Wikipedia main page Gecko is the open source, free software web browser layout engine used in all Mozilla-branded software and its derivatives, including later Netscape releases. ... A layout engine, or rendering engine, is a software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc) and displays the formatted content on the screen. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... Firefox redirects here. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ...

The Mozilla Foundation no longer maintains the suite, so that their developers can focus on Firefox and Thunderbird. The suite has been handed over to the SeaMonkey Council which has continued development with SeaMonkey, an Internet suite developed by the Mozilla community that is based on the source code of the Mozilla Suite, and supersedes it. For other uses, see Seamonkey. ...

A collective name for all Mozilla-based browsers

For simplicity, the word Mozilla is often used to refer to all Mozilla-based browsers. For example, when it is said that a website is usable by Mozilla browsers, it means that it is usable by Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Camino, Netscape 6, etc. In some older Internet statistics programs, the term "Netscape 5.x" is incorrectly used to refer to these browsers because the user agent string starts with Mozilla/5.0. Firefox redirects here. ... For other uses, see Camino (disambiguation). ...

Mozilla application framework

Main article: Mozilla application framework

The term "Mozilla" is also used to refer to the Mozilla application framework, a cross-platform application framework for writing applications that can run on multiple operating systems. It consists most notably of the Gecko layout engine, but also the XUL user-interface toolkit, the Necko networking library, and other components. This is the core that all Mozilla-based browsers and applications are built from. The Mozilla application framework is a collection of cross-platform software components that make up the Mozilla applications. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... In computer programming, an application framework is a term usually used to refer to a set of libraries or classes that are used to implement the standard structure of an application for a specific operating system. ... XUL (pronounced zool ()), the XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language developed by the Mozilla project for use in its cross-platform applications, such as Firefox. ... The Mozilla application framework is a collection of cross-platform software components that make up the Mozilla applications. ...

Mozilla codebase

Source code for Mozilla software projects such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and XULRunner are managed collectively in a single CVS repository. This large codebase is referred to as the Mozilla codebase, the Mozilla source code, or just "Mozilla". Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... Firefox redirects here. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ... XULRunner is a product in development which will serve as a runtime environment for XUL applications. ... The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is an open-source version control system invented and developed by Dick Grune in the 1980s. ... A repository is a central place where data is stored and maintained. ... Codebase is a term used in software development to refer to the aggregate of all source code used to build a particular application or component. ...

After a lengthy process, Mozilla has moved from CVS to Mercurial for Mozilla 2 development.^[3] Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed source management tool for software developers. ...

The Mozilla codebase was originally released under the Netscape Public License. The license was updated to version 1.1 and renamed to the Mozilla Public License. The Free Software Foundation and others noted that a GPL-licensed module and an MPL-license module cannot be legally linked, and they recommend that developers not use the MPL for this reason.^[4] To address this concern, the Mozilla Foundation relicensed great parts of the codebase in 2003 under the GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License as well as the Mozilla Public License.^[5] The Netscape Public License (NPL) is a free software license, the license under which Netscape Communications Corporation originally released Mozilla. ... -1... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... GPL redirects here. ... The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ... -1...

The Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project is also known as DMOZ, an acronym for Directory Mozilla. The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ...

Mozilla software

• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• SeaMonkey
• Bugzilla
• Camino
• Sunbird
• Minimo
• Flock

Firefox redirects here. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ... For other uses, see Seamonkey. ... Bugzilla is a general-purpose bug-tracking tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla Foundation. ... For other uses, see Camino (disambiguation). ... Mozilla Sunbird is a free, open source, cross-platform calendar application developed by the Mozilla Foundation and many volunteers. ... Minimo (from Mini Mozilla) is a project to create a version of the Mozilla web browser for small devices like PDAs and mobile phones. ... Flock is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies. ...

See also

• The Book of Mozilla
• Timeline of web browsers

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References

1. ^ nscp dorm
2. ^ Netscape Announces Plans To Make Next-Generation Communicator Source Code Available Free On The Net. Netscape (1998-01-22).
3. ^ preed's blah-blah-blahg: Version Control System Shootout Redux Redux
4. ^ GNU comments on MPL
5. ^ Mozilla Foundation MPL Relicensing FAQ

Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Mozilla Organization
• Mozilla Corporation and Official Mozilla Wiki.
• Mozilla Messaging
• Mozilla Europe Project
• Mozilla Mercurial Repository