from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)