An "Operating System" within the Operating System
Netscape Communications
announced back in 1998 that they would open
source their popular Netscape Communicator client. Only days
afterwards the first developers started working on the code.
Today many projects are hosted on Mozdev.org and new one are registered
every day. mozilla.org is a group chartered to act as the virtual
meeting place for the Mozilla code. That group is overseen by the
Mozilla Foundation.
All software are released Mozilla
Public License.
Mozilla
has all the standard Web browser functions and a lot more: Navigator,
Mail, Composer and Address Book. Many users found this application
to big and containing software that they didn't have the use for.
This is where Firefox
and Thunderbird
started. Both browsers, Mozilla and Firefox, can be extended with
extensions (XUL applications).
Another widely used project is Bugzilla,
the reporting system also used by yellowTAB.
On the following pages you can read more about:
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