mozilla

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mozilla - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Mozilla
  
     <World-Wide Web, open source> The open source web browser
     , designed for standards-compliance, performance, and
     portability, whose development is coordinated by the Mozilla Foundation
     .
  
     The Mozilla project started in March 1998 when Netscape Communications Corporation
      released the source code of
     Netscape Communicator.  The now abandoned version based on
     that code is referred to as "Mozilla Classic".  Since then,
     much has been rewritten, including the layout engine, the
     networking library, and the front-end.
  
     Mozilla 1.0 was finally released on 2002-06-05.  Much of the
     code was used to build Firefox.
  
     Although a lot of Mozilla code is under the original Netscape
     Public License, some parts of the code are under the Mozilla
     Public License or dual MPL/GPL.
  
     "Mozilla" was the original project code name for Netscape Navigator
      and, according to some of the documentation, the
     correct pronunciation of "Netscape".
  
     [Derived from "Mosaic killer/Godzilla"?]
  
     (2005-01-26)