When it became
apparent that Netscape was losing its lead to Microsoft Internet Explorer, its source code was
released to the world as open source code.
Mozilla.org (www.mozilla.org) was formed to coordinate the development of a new browser
from that code. The result was the Mozilla browser that is now available with many computing
platforms, including many Linux distributions. The availability on multiple platforms is great,
especially if you must switch between Linux and Windows??”for example, using Windows at
work and Linux at home. Mozilla looks and acts the same on many platforms.
As mentioned earlier, the original Mozilla is actually a suite of Internet communications tools. In
addition to viewing Web pages, you can also manage e-mail, newsgroups, IRC, and address books,
and even create your own Web pages with Mozilla Composer.
Recently, the Mozilla Project??™s development has been diverted away from the Mozilla browser (and
associated composer, mail, and chat components) to focus on development of the Firefox Web
browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. Most Linux distributions have made the move to Firefox
as their featured browser (including Fedora), replacing Mozilla. In most respects, however, the
Mozilla Web browser acts the same as an older version of Firefox.
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