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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 formally known as the Mozilla Application Suite, or simply the {{Mozilla Suite}}. It includes a Web browser, an e-mail client, and more.
 
[http://www.mozilla.org/about/ Mozilla the organization] was founded in 1998 to create the Mozilla Suite. It later produced other software products, including:
* {{Firefox}}, a Web browser;
* {{Thunderbird}}, an e-mail client;
* Other sub-projects and spinoffs of the Mozilla Application suite such as the ChatZilla IRC client;
* Web tools that aid the application development such as [http://bugzilla.org/ Bugzilla].
(For details about Mozilla products, refer to the [[Summary of Mozilla products|summary page]].) In 2003 the organization was registered as a not-for-profit organization, and became the [http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla Foundation]. In 2005 a wholly-owned taxable subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation called [http://www.mozilla.com Mozilla Corporation] was created to focus on delivering Firefox and Thunderbird to end users. It also oversees marketing and sponsorships of the Mozilla products.
 
==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.
 
==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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