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The History of Firefox and Mozilla

The story of browsers dating back to the dawn of the Web.

NCSA

1993

Conflictの権利を巡り対立、離反 Mosaic arises over the rights to Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic

ライセンス供与 License provided

Spyglass

Established by Marc Andreessen and James Clark

Mozilla Classic

Netscape Navigator 1.0

COMMUNICATIONS Company name changed after complaint by NCSA

Expansion

Mail and Composer combined

CSS and DynamicHTML support International versions rolled out Netscape Communicator 4.0 Expansion

Inherits some code and design discontinued concepts Started as a joint venture with full-time staff of Netscape and community with investments in Netscape Communications NC5 code given up and redesigned as a new rendering engine called Gecko

リリース Release

Gecko

Mozilla [Milestone 3 ∼ 18]

We were reborn with a new technology called Gecko .

Expansion Mozilla 0.6 Use achievements

Japanese company withdraws

Netscape 6.0

Release

Start working with volunteers

Because we were not sufficiently prepared, IE was still way ahead of us.

Tabbed browsing Pop-up blocker

Netscape disappeared from the market without regaining its strength.

Windows Me release

Windows XP release

バグ修正 Bug fix

Netscape 7.0

Spam filtering

Phoenix 0.1

Netscape 7.1 移管

Everyone worked hard while IE was resting.

Phoenix requests name change

2003 Firebird 0.6

Now it was Firefox s chance! Ad was in NewYork Times and it was like a festival.

Firebird requests name change

Expansion Remaining AOL and Netscape staff laid off

Extension manager

Pop-up blocker 機能 Security warning for downloads セキュリティ警告機能 Add-on maintenance アドオン管理機能 feature

Release Independent nonprofit organization

2006

Windows 2000 release

Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1

Mozilla 1.0

Product 製品ローカライズ、 and document localization Limited Liability responsibility is Partnership is transferred formed for marketing, development and deployment support

Internet Explorer 5.5

Internet Explorer 6.0

Netscape 6.1

Invest出資 ment

Vertical text display ト

Image tool イメージ ツールバー bar パーソナルバー Personal bar

Mozilla 0.9.2

Mozilla 1.4

・Ajax ・Web2.0

Internet Explorer 5.0

Web standards supported

(Code name "SeaMonkey")

Divide/redesign

2005

Integration with IE4.0

ルビ表示のサポート Ruby display

Expansion

・New wave of browser competition begins ・JIS X 8341-3 is set to improve accessibility in Japan

Internet Explorer 4.0

By now, more people are using IE.

NETSC A REVEN PE GE

AOL Our activities have been supported by volunteers.

・Virtually the end of browser race

2004

CSS and DynamicHTML CSS、DynamicHTML を サポート support Windows integration

Investment

2000

・AOL/Microsoft antitrust case settled ・End of browser race ・Blog boom in Japan

Most of the technology now gaining attention was developed during this period.

Internet Explorer 3.0

Netscape Communicator 5.0

Acquired by AOL

2001

BROW S WAR ER

Gold Edition

Many folks helped us but it didn t work well... NC4.x is distributed free NC5.0 is developed by open source and Mozilla.org is founded for code maintenance and NC5 development

Partial support for JScript, JScript、VBScript、 VBScript, CSS (draft) CSS(草案)の一部を サポート

Netscape Navigator 3.0

People said that the Internet is Netscape. It has become very popular.

1997

・AOL/Netscape files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft

発展 Expansion

Netscape Navigator 2.0

Standard Edition

2002

Windows 95 release

Internet Explorer 2.0

Netscape Navigator 3.0

・Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act takes effect ・Improved accessibility

リリース Release Internet Explorer 1.0

Form Japanese company

・Escalation of browser race

1999

We actively competed with IE at this time.

Netscape developed SSL (secure communication using encryption) and JavaScript during this period.

JavaScript support

Microsoft Mosaic license obtained

(Code name "Mozilla")

1996

・IE s dominance grows ・HTML 4.0 introduced ・CSS2 introduced

Spyglass Mosaic

ライセンス供与 License provided

NETSCAPE

1998

リリース Release

Obtains the Mosaic license

リリース Release

・Java introduced ・Internet usage explodes

IE s ancestor is also Mosaic.

Mosaic Communications

1994

1995

リリース Release

Marc Andreessen, et al. developed Mosaic

・Mosaic invades the market

・W3C established ・Netscape Navigator invaded the market

Mosaic is Firefox s distant ancestor!

Mozilla 1.7 Release Release

Affiliated company is started for promotion

Firefox 1.0 Thunderbird 1.0

Automatic update feature SVG HTML Canvas

Automatic update feature Firefox 1.5

Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2

Windows XP SP2 release

Firefox is evolving and moving forward. Please look forward to our next release.

Anti-phishing

Tabbed browsing Anti-phishing Improved Web standard support

Thunderbird 1.5 Anti-phishing

2007

Firefox 2

Internet Explorer 7.0 Windows Vista release

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