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14<header id="header"><div id="header-text">Mozilla History</div>
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27<article id="toc" data-title="Contents">
28<h1><span>Contents</span></h1>
29<h2>Mozilla History: 20+ Years And Counting</h2>
30
31<div class="captionedbox">
32<p class="captionedbox-caption">The following slides are available in this presentation:</p>
33<div class="captionedbox-content">
34<ul id="toc-list">
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37
38<article id="index" data-title="Start Page" data-seconds="600">
39<h1><span>Mozilla History: 20+ Years And Counting</span></h1>
40<h2>An overview of origins, past, and present</h2>
41
42<div class="simplebox decofont">
43<mark><a href="http://home.kairo.at/">Robert Kaiser</a></mark>
44</div>
45
46<div class="captionedbox">
47<p class="captionedbox-caption decofont"><span id="hidesdesc" class="noadvance">Slides:</span>
48 <a href="https://slides.kairo.at/fosdem2021/">https://slides.kairo.at/fosdem2021/</a></p>
49<div class="captionedbox-content small">
50<ul class="small" id="slidesdesc">
51 <li>Created for a presentation in the <a href="http://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/mozilla/">Mozilla
52 Developer Room</a> at <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2021</a> in
53 Brussels.</li>
54 <li>Written in HTML 5 (with modern CSS and JS).</li>
55 <li>Navigation via links on all slides, via access keys
56 (e.g. "n"/Alt+Shift+N for "next") or back/forward arrow keys</li>
57 <li><a href="#toc">Contents</a></li>
58 <li><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img
59 alt="Lizenziert unter CC-BY-SA," class="ccinline" src="cc-by-sa.svg"></a>
60 01/2021 Robert Kaiser -
61 "Mozilla", "Firefox" and related marks/logos are
62 <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/list.html">trademarks
63 of Mozilla Foundation</a>.</li>
64</ul>
65</div>
66</div>
67</article>
68
69<article id="introduction" data-title="Introduction - KaiRo">
70<h1><span>Robert Kaiser - KaiRo</span></h1>
71
72<div class="simplebox">
73<img src="kairo.jpg" class="slidepic"
74 alt="Robert Kaiser">
75<ul>
76 <li>kairo@kairo.at / <a href="https://home.kairo.at/">home.kairo.at</a></li>
77 <li><mark><a href="https://community.mozilla.org/en/groups/mozilla-reps/">Mozilla Rep</a></mark>,
78 <mark><a href="https://community.mozilla.org/en/groups/tech-speakers/">Tech Speaker</a></mark></li>
79 <li>Based in Vienna, Austria</li>
80 <li>Not very active on social networks</li>
81 <li>But on <a href="https://matrix.to/#/@kairo:mozilla.org">Matrix</a>,
82 <a href="https://joindiaspora.com/people/eb2e0ec0ec0d04bc">Diaspora*</a>,
83 <a href="https://community.mozilla.org/en/people/kairo/">Mozilla Community</a>,
84 <a href="https://telegram.me/KaiRo_at">Telegram</a>,
85 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kaiser-kairo-at">LinkedIn</a>,
86 <a href="https://github.com/KaiRo-at">KaiRo-at at GitHub</a></li>
87</ul>
88<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
89</div>
90</article>
91
92<article id="origin" data-title="Mozilla Name Origin">
93<h1><span>Origin of the Name "Mozilla"</span></h1>
94
95<div class="simplebox">
96<img src="mozdino-green.jpg" class="slidepic"
97 alt="Mozilla dino - © Dave Titus">
98<ul>
99 <li>1993: Marc Andreessen, co-writer of
100 <abbr title="National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois">NCSA</abbr>
101 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)">Mosaic</a>,
102 co-founds company for commercial web browser</li>
103 <li>"Mosaic killer" app, reminding of "Godzilla" --> code-name <mark>"Mozilla"</mark></li>
104 <li>Used as internal name, user agent "Mozilla/..."</li>
105 <li>Green dino mascot (© Dave Titus)</li>
106 <li>Public/commercial name <mark><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape">Netscape</a></mark> later in 1994</li>
107</ul>
108<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
109</div>
110</article>
111
112<article id="launch" data-title="Mozilla Project Launch">
113<h1><span>Mozilla Project Launch</span></h1>
114
115<div class="simplebox">
116<img src="hack.png" class="slidepic"
117 alt="mozilla.org: hack - this technology could fall into the right hands">
118<ul>
119 <li>Jan 1998: Netscape announces <mark>open-sourcing</mark> of code</li>
120 <li><abbr title="Netscape Public License">NPL</abbr> as a new license, written by Mitchell Baker</li>
121 <li>Using <mark>Mozilla</mark> project name, <a href="https://mozilla.org/">mozilla.org</a></li>
122 <li>Red dino <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_%28mascot%29">mascot</a> (by Shepard Fairey)</li>
123 <li>tag line "hack - this technology could fall into the right hands"</li>
124 <li>Target: Internet Application Suite code as base for Netscape 5+</li>
125 <li>Open-source code launch on <mark>March 31, 1998</mark></li>
126 <li><mark><a href="http://archive.org/details/CodeRush_616">Code Rush</a></mark> documentary</li>
127</ul>
128<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
129</div>
130</article>
131
132<article id="suite" data-title="Mozilla Application Suite">
133<h1><span>Mozilla Application Suite</span></h1>
134
135<div class="simplebox">
136<img src="mozsuite.png" class="slidepic"
137 alt="Mozilla Suite screen shots">
138<ul>
139 <li>Late 1998: Start building on in-development Raptor/NGLayout/<mark>Gecko</mark>
140 engine (HTML4+XML-compliant).</li>
141 <li>Complete <mark>rewrite</mark> of suite based on browser tech
142 ("<abbr title="Cross-Platform Front End">XPFE</bbr>")</li>
143 <li><abbr title="XML User Interface Language">XUL</abbr> (with CSS + JS),
144 <abbr title="XML Binding Language">XBL</abbr>,
145 plus <abbr title="Cross-Platform Component Object Model">XPCOM</abbr>, RDF/XML, etc.</li>
146 <li>M3-M18 milestone releases, 0.6 as base for Netscape 6 in 2000, <mark>1.0 in June 2002</mark></li>
147 <li>Regular development and releases up to 1.7 in 2005</li>
148 <li>Deprecated for Firefox and Thunderbird</li>
149 <li>Transition to community in 2005 ("SeaMonkey")</li>
150</ul>
151<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
152</div>
153</article>
154
155<article id="firefox" data-title="The Rise of Firefox">
156<h1><span>The Rise of Firefox</span></h1>
157
158<div class="simplebox">
159<img src="splendid_firefox_small.jpg" class="slidepic"
160 alt="The Splendid Firefox!">
161<ul>
162 <li>April 2002: <mark>m/b</mark> -
163 <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/4c205237b560525550d77a47c6ca805ecc569ca6/browser/README.html">"The
164 idea is to design the best web browser for most people."</a></li>
165 <li>Leaner, cleaner, <mark>browser-only UI</mark> based on same technologies as suite</li>
166 <li>Name changes to Phoenix, Firebird and finally Firefox</li>
167 <li>Firefox 1.0 released on <mark>November 9, 2004</mark></li>
168 <li>Web Search integration</li>
169 <li>Rapid growth to hundreds of millions of users</li>
170 <li>Started a whole new push of Internet innovation</li>
171</ul>
172<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
173</div>
174</article>
175
176<article id="mofo" data-title="Mozilla Foundation">
177<h1><span>Mozilla Foundation</span></h1>
178
179<div class="simplebox">
180<img src="adoptmozilla.png" class="slidepic"
181 alt="Various Mozilla logos and graphics">
182<ul>
183 <li>AOL/Netscape pulling out of Mozilla in 2003</li>
184 <li><mark>Mozilla Foundation</mark> ("MoFo") created with some one-time funding</li>
185 <li>No employees, Mitchell Baker as chairwoman</li>
186 <li>Donations, then Web Search money with Firefox 1.0</li>
187 <li><mark>Mozilla Corporation</mark> ("MoCo") subsidiary since 2005 for tax reasons</li>
188 <li>After that, mission-driven, non-commercial work at MoFo</li>
189 <li>New <mark>moz://a</mark> logo since 2017</li>
190</ul>
191<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
192</div>
193</article>
194
195<article id="mission" data-title="Mission and Manifesto">
196<h1><span>Mozilla Mission and Manifesto</span></h1>
197
198<div class="simplebox">
199<img src="mozilla-open-poster.jpg" class="slidepic"
200 alt="Mozilla 'OPEN' dino poster">
201<ul>
202 <li>Initially, "act as the virtual meeting place for the Mozilla code"</li>
203 <li>First actual <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031118185113/http://www.mozilla.org/about/">mission
204 statement</a> on website in 2003: "preserve choice and innovation on the Internet"</li>
205 <li>Today: "ensure the Internet is a <mark>global public resource, open and
206 accessible to all</mark>. [...]"</li>
207 <li>Since 2007, Principles of
208 <mark><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/">Mozilla Manifesto</a></mark></li>
209 <li>Pledge for human experience added to Manifesto in 2018</li>
210</ul>
211<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
212</div>
213</article>
214
215<article id="projects1" data-title="Other Products/Projects, Part 1">
216<h1><span>Other Products/Projects (Excerpt) - Part I</span></h1>
217
218<div class="simplebox">
219<img src="otherprojects.png" class="slidepic"
220 alt="Logos of other Mozilla projects listed on the slide">
221<ul>
222 <li><abbr title="Mozilla Developer Center">MDC</abbr>/<abbr title="Mozilla Developer Network">MDN</abbr>:
223 developer documentation, since 2005</li>
224 <li>XULRunner: XUL application platform, 2006-2015</li>
225 <li><mark>Rust</mark>: programming language, personal project since 2006,
226 sponsored by Mozilla since 2010, creation of separate foundation in progress</li>
227 <li>Persona/BrowserID: decentralized auth system, 2011-2016</li>
228 <li>Servo: experimental browser engine, since 2012, cooperation with Samsung,
229 moved to <abbr title="Linux Foundation">LF</abbr> in 2020</li>
230 <li><mark>Firefox OS</mark>: web-based mobile OS, 2013-2016</li>
231</ul>
232<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
233</div>
234</article>
235
236<article id="projects2" data-title="Other Products/Projects, Part 2">
237<h1><span>Other Products/Projects (Excerpt) - Part II</span></h1>
238
239<div class="simplebox">
240<img src="otherprojects.png" class="slidepic"
241 alt="Logos of other Mozilla projects listed on the slide">
242<ul>
243 <li>A-Frame: WebVR/XR framework, since 2015, moved to community in 2018</li>
244 <li><mark>Pocket</mark> (orig. "Read It Later"): web content lists,
245 independent since 2007, acquired by Mozilla in 2017</li>
246 <li><mark>Mozilla Hubs</mark>: social VR platform, since 2017</li>
247 <li>WebThings: Smart Home gateway, since 2017, moved to community in 2020</li>
248 <li>Firefox Lockwise: password manager, since 2018</li>
249 <li>Firefox Monitor: data breach checker, since 2018</li>
250 <li>Mozilla <mark>VPN</mark>: since 2019/2020</li>
251</ul>
252<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
253</div>
254</article>
255
256<article id="now" data-title="Current State of Mozilla">
257<h1><span>Current State of Mozilla</span></h1>
258
259<div class="simplebox">
260<img src="mozcurrent.png" class="slidepic"
261 alt="Current screen shot of Firefox privacy website">
262<ul>
263 <li><mark>Firefox</mark> (desktop, mobile) and Pocket</li>
264 <li>Plus <mark>Privacy &amp; Security</mark> products (Monitor, VPN, ...)</li>
265 <li>Some research into new offerings (like Hubs, etc.)</li>
266 <li>Mozilla Foundation: Mission (MozFest, Common Voice, ...)</li>
267 <li><mark>Thunderbird</mark>: separate under MoFo umbrella</li>
268 <li>Related projects: <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a>,
269 <a href="https://www.bugzilla.org/">Bugzilla</a>,
270 <a href="https://webthings.io/">Webthings</a>,
271 <a href="https://www.kaiostech.com/">KaiOS</a>, ...</li>
272</ul>
273<p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
274</div>
275</article>
276
277<article id="end" data-title="The End">
278
279<div class="simplebox endslidecontainer">
280<h1 class="cent endslidetext"><span>Thank You.</span></h1>
281<h2 class="cent endslidetext"><span><a href="https://home.kairo.at/">https://home.kairo.at/</a></span></h2>
282<h3 class="cent endslidetext"><span><a href="https://mozilla.org/">https://mozilla.org/</a></span></h2>
283<img src="mozgear.jpg" class="sshot endslidepic" alt="Various Mozilla gear (T-shirts, stickers, etc.)">
284</div>
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