Mozilla

The open-source software development organization Mozilla created the Firefox Web browser. Mozilla is also the developer of applications such as Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Bugzilla, Camino, Sunbird and Minimo.

On October 19, 2009 Mozilla acknowledged a release in firefox that purposely blocked parts of Microsoft's .NET plugin in order to plug a security hole that could affect some users. The redmond company is working with Mozilla in order to come to a permanent fix.

Netscape made the code of its Communicator browser suite open-source in March 1998. The Mozilla Organization was then created to develop a browser from this code. It released a browser suite named Mozilla on June 5, 2002, but later changed its focus to the standalone browser Mozilla Firefox.

In 2003, the Mozilla Organization officially launched as the 501(c)(3) non-profit Mozilla Foundation to continue projects based on the Mozilla Suite source code. In August of 2005, the foundation created a for-profit arm called Mozilla Corporation to handle Firefox marketing and distribution, and in 2008 it created another for-profit arm called Mozilla Messaging.