Mozilla

World-Wide Web, body, open source The open source webbrowser, designed for standards-compliance, performance, and

portability, whose development is coordinated by mozilla.org.

The Mozilla project started in March 1998 when NetscapeCommunications Corporation released the source code of

Netscape Communicator. The now abandoned version based on

that code is referred to as "Mozilla Classic". Since then,

much has been rewritten, including the layout engine, the

networking library, and the front-end.

mozilla.org was set up by Netscape in January 1998 to

coordinate development and to provide a point of contact for

interested people. Mozilla 1.0 was finally released on

2002-06-05.

Although a lot of Mozilla code is under the original Netscape

Public License, some parts of the code are under the Mozilla

Public License or dual MPL/GPL.

"Mozilla" was the original project code name for NetscapeNavigator and, according to some of the documentation, the

correct pronunciation of "Netscape".

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[Derived from "Mosaic killer/Godzilla"?]

(2002-11-13)