Mozilla
The term Mozilla [ moʊzɪlɐ ] stands for Internet software and for project organizations that are associated with creating such software. From the Netscape Navigator Web browser, which was developed under the code name Mozilla, the toolkit Mozilla Application Suite has emerged. The company Netscape Communications Corporation, in which the software was developed, led, temporarily, a colored lizard that had received the name Mozilla, as their company logo.
Also, the central component of the associated with Mozilla software that Gecko rendering engine, has a lizard ( gecko -like ) as a name. This module, which takes on the appearance of Internet documents is, for example, part of the Mozilla Firefox browser and the Thunderbird program collection.
- 2.1 Mozilla Application Suite
- 2.2 Mozilla Application Framework
- Mozilla 2.3 codebase
- 2.4 part of the identification of many web browser
- 3.1 The Mascot
Mozilla project organizations
Mozilla project
The Mozilla project is under the umbrella of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla project was originally launched by Netscape.
Mozilla Foundation
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To develop the Internet program collection the next generation of Netscape, the Mozilla Organization was founded (short Mozilla.org ) 1998. On 15 July 2003, the organization was officially registered as a non-profit organization under the name of the Mozilla Foundation. This foundation is primarily responsible for the development and maintenance of the Mozilla Firefox browser, the e -mail program, Mozilla Thunderbird and the two applications underlying Gecko rendering engine. But you also hosts some other projects such as Bugzilla, Tinderbox, Sunbird and Camino. Mozilla has been registered by the Foundation as a trademark.
Mozilla Corporation
On 3 August 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced the establishment of a commercial and taxable business under the name of Mozilla Corporation, which is dedicated to developing, in the marketing, commercial support and sponsorship of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird prescribed. According to Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation should then continue to change employers in favor of Mozilla Corporation 36 of the 40 employees of the Foundation.
Mozilla messaging
On 19 February 2008, the creation of Mozilla Messaging was announced, which is like the Mozilla Corporation, a commercial and taxable business and is 100 % owned by the Mozilla Foundation. The company's goal was the development of software in the field of Internet communication, here in particular the development of the e- mail client Mozilla Thunderbird. In April 2011, Mozilla Messaging was reintegrated to 5.0 coordinate the development of Thunderbird 5.0 with Firefox better. The former CEO David Ascher changes from Mozilla Messaging on the Mozilla Labs.
Software
The most important end-user applications for the desktop are the Firefox web browser and the email program Thunderbird. Moreover, there is a calendar application that is either offered as a standalone application or as an extension for Thunderbird, but is not provided due to the early stage of development for production use. One mobile Mozilla provides Firefox for Android in a mobile web browser for the Android platform and Firefox OS with an HTML -based mobile operating system for smartphones.
The Mozilla Foundation plans in the future, the current individual applications on the common base to operate the XULRunner.
In addition to this software Bugzilla defect management, an IRC client ChatZilla ( as a Firefox extension ) and other less common treatments. In June 2012, Mozilla introduced a web browser for the Apple iPad before with a new user interface. This is called Junior. As an alternative to Apple 's Safari browser, it has a completely redesigned user interface. This stands out mainly because from that it contains no address bar and only two buttons offered to switch with the help of the user to the previous page, or can display the course of his online activity plus usual URL bar.
Mozilla Application Suite
In March 1998, Netscape Communications released most of the source text of your designated as Netscape Communicator widespread collection of programs for the Internet under a free license. As a name for the new application that was developed from this shared source code, it was decided to Mozilla, the former company's internal code name of the original Netscape Navigator. In November 1998, however, it was decided to develop a completely new rendering engine called Gecko. After a relatively long period of pre -1.0 versions of Mozilla 1.0 was presented on 5 June 2002.
The source code of the Mozilla toolkit also served as the open source foundation for the Netscape Suite from version 6.0 up to and including Netscape 7.2; the source code of the Gecko rendering engine as part of the Mozilla Application Suite also formed the basis for further stand-alone applications, including today's flagships of the Mozilla Foundation Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. In order to distinguish the Mozilla suite of retail applications better, it was marketed as the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Application Suite.
Meanwhile, the foundation, however, the development of the toolkit in favor of Firefox and Thunderbird has set. A further development of the program collection is now in the context of a largely independent project under the name SeaMonkey instead, making an originally -used as a code name in the Mozilla project term is used for a collection of programs.
Mozilla Application Framework
The Mozilla Application Framework is a platform-independent framework for the development of applications to run on multiple operating systems. It consists mainly of the Gecko rendering engine, but also the XUL user interface toolkit, the necko network programming library and a few other components. This is the core program, from which all Mozilla -based applications to be built. For Mozilla Application Framework includes end to this with an available cross-platform components collection XPCOM that can be accessed uniformly across platforms in the framework of different environments and with different languages out by the.
Mozilla codebase
The Mozilla code base, consisting of the source code of the Mozilla software projects such as Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. XULRunner is managed separately for projects in Mercurial repositories. This large source code base is also simplified as Mozilla source code or referred even easier than Mozilla.
The Mozilla code base was originally released under the Netscape Public License. With the upgrade the license to version 1.1 also the name was changed to the Mozilla Public License ( MPL). The Free Software Foundation and other Free Software advocates pointed out that under the GNU General Public License ( GPL) licensed component and an MPL - licensed component could not be linked to a legal manner with each other in a software project, and they recommended developers for this reason, do not use the MPL. To take this into account, the Mozilla Foundation has licensed the code base in 2003 three times under the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, as well as under the Mozilla Public License.
Since the registration of the product names and logos as trademarks, as well as the concurrent licensing the logos under a non- free license to the Debian project was because of his principles, the affected products that are based on the Mozilla code base, in spite of the free source code not under the official name in commence distributions. So it has come to a name dispute between Debian and Mozilla with the result that Debian offers the affected Mozilla products under other names with other logos. Mozilla Firefox was passing the name Iceweasel. Originally also another project called GNUzilla chose the same except for the uppercase name IceWeasel in advance for your Firefox version. This project was initiated by a small team as part of the GNU project. The goal of Gnuzilla it is also to offer the Mozilla products with no proprietary components or as free software under another name. After confusion caused by the similarity of names, the Gnuzilla team IceCat but decided later for a different name.
Part of the identification of many web browser
When someone visits a web page with an application, generally a string is sent, the (in this case called User Agent ), the user program used to identify himself to the Web server.
This string is called the User Agent string.
The Netscape browser identified itself as " Mozilla /
Because the leading at that time Netscape had many features that other browsers did not, soon worked some websites only if they found a desired version of Mozilla in the user - agent string.
That's why other browsers began to imitate the Netscape Navigator to also be able to represent these sites by their user agent string began with Mozilla.
The best known example is Internet Explorer, which was the main competitor of Netscape.
He identified with "Mozilla /
In some older browsers statistical applications, the term Netscape 5.0 is incorrectly used to refer to this browser because their user-agent string starts with Mozilla/5.0.
Origin of the name
Originally Mozilla was used only as a company's internal name for the Netscape Navigator Web browser. For exact origin of the name, which refers to the first popular web browser Mosaic, there are several explanations. One says that it is composed of Mosaic Killa (English slang for Mosaic Killer ), according to the other from Mosaic meets Godzilla. You may even come to both explanations.
The mascot
Mozilla was also the mascot of Netscape Communications Corporation, which emerged from the Mosaic Communications Corporation. Initially, there were many expressions of various forms of the mascot, including an astronaut with helmet, but the final decision for a Godzilla -like green lizard had to do without a doubt so that the name of Mozilla Godzilla resembled the word. The appearance of the mascot was designed by Dave Titus 1994.
Mozilla was initially shown very prominently on the Netscape Web site. However, the necessity of a more professional image of the company, particularly with regard to corporate customers, to the fact that the mascot of the website disappeared. Netscape is still used within the company, and it was often seen on T -shirts the workforce or as works of art on the walls of the Netscape campus in Mountain View, California.
After acquisition of the web directory NewHoo 1998, it was renamed in DMOZ Open Directory Project with the nickname. This dmoz is because of its similarity with the Mozilla project for Directory of Mozilla. An image of green lizard since graced almost every page of dmoz. This is still the case even though Netscape was dissolved after their acquisition by AOL.