28 Facts About Mozilla

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Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.

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The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions.

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Originally, Mozilla aimed to be a technology provider for companies such as Netscape, who would commercialize their free software code.

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Mozilla's activities have since expanded to include Firefox on mobile platforms, a mobile OS called Firefox OS (since cancelled), a web-based identity system called Mozilla Persona and a marketplace for HTML5 applications.

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In December 2013, Mozilla announced funding for the development of paid games through its Game Creator Challenge.

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However, shortly after news broke of the service, Mozilla removed information about the service from the website.

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7.

Computerworld reported that in an email statement, Mozilla claimed "the page outlining that these paid support services for enterprise clients will be available was posted incorrectly.

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In September 2020, Mozilla announced that Firefox Send will be decommissioned and will no longer be part of the product lineup.

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Mozilla VPN, formerly Firefox Private Network, is a subscription-based VPN and a free privacy extension.

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10.

In September 2018, Mozilla announced that its VR version was ready for consumers to download.

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11.

Mozilla announced the end of Firefox OS development in December 2015.

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12.

On July 16, 2012, Mitchell Baker announced that Mozilla's leadership had come to the conclusion that ongoing stability was the most important thing for Thunderbird and that innovation in Thunderbird was no longer a priority for Mozilla.

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In that update, Baker suggested that Mozilla had provided a pathway for its community to innovate around Thunderbird if the community chooses.

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14.

On March 10, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that it would not release any official versions of Mozilla Application Suite beyond 1.

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15.

The Mozilla Foundation provides project hosting for the SeaMonkey developers.

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16.

XULRunner is a software platform and technology experiment by Mozilla, that allows applications built with the same technologies used by Firefox extensions to be run natively as desktop applications, without requiring Firefox to be installed on the user's machine.

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Mozilla VR is a team focused on bringing virtual reality tools, specifications, and standards to the open Web.

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18.

Mozilla VR maintains A-Frame, a web framework for building VR experiences, and works on advancing WebVR support within web browsers.

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19.

Mozilla Persona was a secure, cross-browser website authentication mechanism which allowed a user to use a single username and password to log into multiple sites.

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20.

Mozilla Webmaker is Mozilla's educational initiative, and Webmaker's goal is to "help millions of people move from using the web to making the web.

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21.

Mozilla maintains a comprehensive developer documentation website called the MDN Web Docs which contains information about web technologies including HTML, CSS, SVG, JavaScript, as well as Mozilla-specific information.

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22.

In July 2017, Mozilla launched the project Common Voice to help make voice recognition open to everyone.

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Mozilla publishes Common Voice data sets under a CC-0 license.

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24.

On June 26, 2017, Mozilla launched IRL – Online Life Is Real Life to explore popular stories from the web that deal with issues of the internet that affect society as a whole.

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25.

In 2017, Mozilla created a Wireless Innovation for Network Security challenge that awarded a total of $2 million in prize money to innovators who used its decentralized design to create wireless solutions for post-natural disaster internet access.

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26.

Mozilla Reps program is a volunteer-based program, which allows volunteers to become official representatives of Mozilla.

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27.

Mozilla Festival is a unique hybrid: part art, tech, and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.

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28.

Mozilla had its last Summit in 2013 and replaced them with smaller all-hands where both employees and volunteers come together to collaborate.

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