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| ==What is Mozilla?==
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| '''Mozilla''' is both the name of an ''Internet software program'' and the name of the ''organization'' that makes it.
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| The software program is also known as Mozilla Application Suite, or simply {{Mozilla Suite}}. It includes a web browser, an e-mail and IRC client, and more.
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| [http://mozilla.org/about/ Mozilla the organization] is a non-profit [http://mozilla.org/foundation/ foundation] that created the Suite and other software products, including: | |
| * The cutting edge web browser, {{Firefox}}.
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| * The new e-mail program, {{Thunderbird}}.
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| * Other sub-projects and spinoffs of the Mozilla Application suite, such as ChatZilla IRC client.
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| * Web tools that aid the application development such as [http://bugzilla.org/ Bugzilla].
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| <!-- [http://www.mozilla.org/credits/ volunteers] -->
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| For details about Mozilla products please refer to the [[Summary of Mozilla products|summary page]].
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| ==Mozilla and Netscape==
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| Mozilla and Netscape have had an interesting relationship. Netscape was the company that created the open-source Mozilla project by contributing pre-5.0 Netscape beta code. This code was eventually abandoned in favor of a ground-up rewrite of the browser, from which future Netscape releases were made. Although it came too late to help Netscape in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars Browser wars], beta versions of the Mozilla Suite formed the basis for Netscape 6.x versions, and the [http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html version 1.0] release of Mozilla was combined with proprietary components such as AIM and Netscape Radio to create Netscape 7.
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| ==The Gecko rendering engine==
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| '''Gecko''' is a ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine rendering engine]'', the software component that takes web content, such as HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc., and displays it on the screen. It's a part of the Mozilla organization's web browsers, e-mail programs, and anything else that displays web pages. Gecko has a well-deserved reputation for industry-leading support of web standards, alongside the flexibility to support the non-standard code often found on the web. Gecko correctly renders almost every page on today's web and Gecko helps web developers move forward by supporting the [[Intro : Comparison: Standards Comparison | latest web technologies]].
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| Gecko is also used to render the user interface for Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird using XUL, the XML User-interface Language.
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| ==See also==
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| * [http://mozilla.org/about/ About Mozilla]
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozilla in Wikipedia]
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| * [[Summary of Mozilla products]]
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| * [[Product comparison matrix]]
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| [[Category:Introduction]]
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