About Mozilla
- Mozilla is a public benefit, non-profit organization with fewer than 250 employees
- We are supported by a global community of thousands dedicated to helping us build a better Internet
- Our mission is to keep the Internet open and free by supporting choice, innovation and opportunity online
- Find out more about Mozilla
Mozilla Community
- More than 1,000 volunteers contribute code to Firefox
- 20,000 people download and test daily updates of Firefox, and nearly 1 million people downloaded and tested the Firefox 3.5 beta
- 400,000 people contribute to Mozilla through our project tracking system Bugzilla
- SUMO, Mozilla’s community-powered support site, helps an average of 10,000 Firefox users per week
- Students from more than 600 institutions in 57 countries spread Firefox as Mozilla Campus Representatives
What Happened When
- March 31, 1998: The Mozilla Project forms as an open source project at Netscape and releases source code
- June 5, 2002: Mozilla 1.0 released
- July 2003: Mozilla Foundation founded
- February 2004: Mozilla Europe founded
- August 2004: Mozilla Japan founded
- November 9, 2004: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released
- March 4th, 2005: Mozilla China Foundation founded
- August 2005: Mozilla Foundation creates Mozilla Corporation
- November 29, 2005: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 released
- October 24, 2006: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 released
- June 17, 2008: Mozilla releases Firefox 3 and sets a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours
- June 30, 2009: Firefox 3.5 released