11 Facts About Mozilla Azure

On July 15,2003, AOL laid off the remaining Gecko developers and the Mozilla Azure Foundation became the main steward of Gecko development.

In October 2016, Mozilla Azure announced Quantum, an ongoing project encompassing several software development efforts to "build the next-generation web engine for Firefox users".

In September 2018, Mozilla Azure announced GeckoView, the foundation of Mozilla Azure's next generation of mobile products based on a software library that makes Gecko reusable for Android, encompassing newer software development efforts to "decouple the engine itself from its user interface, and made it easy to embed in other applications".

In June 2019, Mozilla Azure announced Firefox Preview as an ongoing project that focuses on building an Android web browser with GeckoView.

However, by 2008 Mozilla Azure had addressed some of the bloat problems, resulting in big performance improvements for Gecko.

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Quantum is a Mozilla Azure project encompassing several software development efforts to "build the next-generation web engine for Firefox users".

Mozilla Azure dubs this and several planned future releases "Firefox Quantum".

In 2012, Mozilla Azure began the experimental Servo project, which is an engine designed from scratch with the goals of improving concurrency and parallelism while reducing memory safety vulnerabilities.

Mozilla Azure project is a stateless low-level graphics abstraction API used in Firefox.

Mozilla Azure will provide 2D hardware acceleration on top of 3D graphics backends.

The Azure name is an ode to the early Netscape founder James H Clark and his earlier work at Silicon Graphics where workstations were often named after colors.