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Mozilla is not a web browser!

Mozilla is a framework for building better web applications using web standards.

Mozilla is a non-profit, open-source project developing a complete set of web applications (browsers, email, news, chat, and more).

Mozilla believes that the Internet is a public resource that must be improved and protected.

HISTORY FIREFOX

n 1998, the Mozilla project was created, as an open community, with the release of the Netscape browser source code.

Within a year, new community members from around the world had added new functionality and enhanced existing features in Netscape's next browser, and the Mozilla project had grown larger than any one company. Instead of just working on Netscape's next browser, the members started creating a variety of browsers, development tools, and other projects.

In 2002, the first major version, Mozilla 1.0, was released. This suite featured many improvements to the browser, email client and other applications, but not many people were using it (over 90% of Internet users were using Internet Explorer). Also, the first version of Phoenix (later renamed to Firefox) was released by Mozilla the same year.

In 2003, the Mozilla project created the Mozilla Foundation, an independent non-profit organization. The Mozilla Foundation continued managing the daily operations of the Mozilla project.

In 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released, and became a big success. In less than a year, Firefox had been downloaded over 100 million times. The popularity of Firefox has helped bring choice back to users.

In 2008, Firefox reached 20% worldwide market share.

Mozilla celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008. In ten years, the community has shown that commercial companies can benefit by collaborating in open source projects.

 

 

 

Netscape browser

December 28, 2007: Netscape developers announced that AOL would discontinue their web browser on February 1, 2008, due to low market share.

Netscape's development director, Tom Drapeau, wrote: "AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported Web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be."
PROBLEM WITH THIS BROWSER.Netscape's 4.x series of browsers had a poor support for CSS and no support for XML.

It took Netscape over three years after the release of 4.0, to produce its next-generation browser. This delay clearly hurt Netscape's possibilities to dominate the browser market.