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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.
 
The software program is also known as Mozilla Application Suite, or simply the {{Mozilla Suite}}. It includes a web browser, an e-mail and IRC client, and more.
 
[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}}.
* The new e-mail program, {{Thunderbird}}.
* Other sub-projects and spinoffs of the Mozilla Application suite, such as ChatZilla IRC client.
* Web tools that aid the application development such as [http://bugzilla.org/ Bugzilla].
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For details about Mozilla products please refer to the [[Summary of Mozilla products|summary page]].
 
==Mozilla and Netscape==
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.
 
==The Gecko rendering engine==
'''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 [http://nanobox.chipx86.com/browser_support.php latest web technologies].
 
Gecko is also used to render the user interface for the Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird using XUL, the XML User-interface Language.
 
==See also==
* [[Summary of Mozilla products]]
* [[Product comparison matrix]]
 
==External links==
* [http://mozilla.org/about/ About Mozilla]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozilla in Wikipedia]
 
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