July 15, 2003
Mozilla Foundation created
The MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy. Foundation launched on July 15, 2003 to steward FirefoxMozilla's open-source browser — championed web standards and challenged Internet Explorer's dominance., Thunderbird, and open web standards after AOL scaled back NetscapeA commercial web browser company — Navigator defined the early consumer web..
What it was for
MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy. kept a nonprofit home for browser engine development independent of any single vendor — influencing WebKitApple's open-source browser engine — powers Safari and historically influenced Chrome's fork., ChromiumGoogle's open-source browser project — the foundation for Chrome, Edge, and other modern browsers. competition, and MDN documentation developers rely on.
People
- Mitchell Baker — founder
Companies
- Mozilla
Why it's here
MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy. Foundation preserved an independent browser voice post-NetscapeA commercial web browser company — Navigator defined the early consumer web..
Why it mattered
It sustained open web advocacy when commercial browsers consolidated.
What it solved
Browser innovation risked collapsing into IEInternet Explorer — Microsoft's browser that dominated the web in the 1990s and 2000s. monopoly without nonprofit stewardship.
Media
- ImageMozilla Firefox logo 2013
Sean Martell for Mozilla [2][3], CC BY 3.0, via wikimedia
Related
- Firefox 1.0 releasedNovember 9, 2004
- Mozilla source code open-sourcedMarch 31, 1998