What is Mozilla?
Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We emphasize principle over profit, and believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create open source products like Mozilla Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web. The result is great products built by passionate people and better choices for everyone.
Who is the Mozilla Community
- More than 1,000 volunteers contribute code to Firefox
- 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
Company Timeline
- 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
- January 21, 2010: Firefox 3.6 released
- March 22, 2011: Firefox 4 Released
- March 29, 2011: Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo released
Fast Facts
- More than 450 million people around the world use Firefox
- Firefox is free and open source software, with approximately 40% of its code written by volunteers
- Firefox global market share is 30 percent
The Global Browser
- Firefox is available in more than 75 languages (covering more than 97% of the world’s online population)
- Firefox is used in every country in the world
- Almost every non-English version of Firefox is localized by community volunteers
- More than 50% of global Firefox users use non-English versions
The Power of Customization
- More than 9,000 free, community contributed Add-ons for Firefox
- There are more than 250,000 different Personas available for Firefox
- More than 40% of users have at least one add-on installed
Going Mobile
- Mozilla's mobile effort is based on the belief that, regardless of what device you access it from, there is only one Web.
- Built on the same core technology, Firefox mobile has many of the same great features of the desktop version.
