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Mozilla the name - Mozilla was originally the moscot of Netscape in its very early days. Rumor has it that Mozilla was a contraction of Mosaic-killer Godzilla because the orginal creators were fans of Godzilla (see Netscape at its early days in the Origin of a Browser).
Mozilla the organization - The Mozilla Organization is an independent, open-source organization. It is composed of hundreds of volunteers as well as employees of its many supporters.
mozilla.org was created in 1998 when Netscape released the Netscape Communicator source code to the public. The source code, however, was soon scrapped and a new browser and layout engine, Gecko, were created. The organization continued to operate under Netscape until the task was handed over to the Mozilla Foundation, an independent non-profit organization, on July 2003.
Mozilla the software - Mozilla is an advanced, standard-compliant Internet application suite built from ground up.
Mozilla is for everyone. And we mean everyone. Mozilla is open source, which means it is made possible by a large community of developers, supporters, and users like you. While you enjoy our software, please consider joining and contributing to the Mozilla community.
We also welcome anybody to freely alter and redistribute Mozilla under the terms of the Mozilla Public Licence.
Mozilla follows fast development, with milestone releases made according to the development roadmap. Starting from year 2003, Mozilla is released on a quarterly schedule.
Netscape 7.1 is based on Mozilla 1.4. Both applications share almost the identical features, such as tabbed browsing, custom keywords, and Sidebar. Exceptions are additions of proprietary features such as the support for Netscape WebMail and AOL mail. In general, Netscape 7 and Mozilla will display Web pages and read mail the same.
Note the development of Netscape 7 browser suite has been stopped.
Users are encouraged to move to Mozilla. Read
Migrating from Netscape 6 or 7
in the Getting Started Guide.
First, uninstall Mozilla, as detailed for your operating system in the Release Notes:
Then install the new version. You should never install a new version of Mozilla over a previous one.
If your plug-ins folder is inside the Mozilla application folder, you may wish to save it elsewhere beforehand so as to restore it after reinstalling. You can also keep your plug-ins folder in your profile. Go to Help | About Plug-ins to see the locations of the plug-ins Mozilla is currently using.
Uninstalling Mozilla this way will leave your profile and your user preferences intact. You may lose access to some add-ins and have to reinstall them.
If you have problems with a new installation of Mozilla, see the Troubleshooting Guide and the Getting Started Guide.
mozilla.org does not release patches. Mozilla releases are stable and secure, and they normally do not require updates. (In fact, Mozilla 1.0 only has two maintainance releases one year after release.)
Go to ExtensionRoom project for a list of extensions you can use.
You can see keyboard shortcuts in the on-screen Help (Help | Help Contents).
As well as the preferences found under Edit | Preferences (Mac OS X: Mozilla |
Preferences), the advanced user has fine control over a tremendous
number of Mozilla parameters. To access and modify these advanced preferences,
enter about:config
in the Location Bar.
Improper configuration may cause Mozilla to malfunction. Your preferences are stored in file prefs.js in your profile. Be sure to back up this file before you use about:config. Also read Customizing Mozilla, Hidden Mail Compose Prefs and Hidden Address Book Prefs.
You may also use the MozTweak or Preferential add-on for a more user-friendly interface.
A crash recovery project is in development at http://recall.mozdev.org/.
AIM is a proprietary AOL product and is integrated only with Netscape. You can still use the stand-alone version of AIM, or the Java version (if you have the Java plug-in installed).
There is also a Jabber instant messaging client for Mozilla in development at Jabberzilla.
Mozilla uses plug-ins from the Netscape 4 plug-in folder if it is present (except on Mac OS X native builds); uninstalling Netscape 4 may remove these plug-ins. You may need to copy your Netscape 4 plug-ins to the Mozilla plug-in folder before uninstalling Netscape 4. Go to Help | About Plug-ins to see where the plug-ins Mozilla is currently using are actually stored.
These sites contain Mozilla news and resources: