Chrome Web Store is Google 's online store for its Chrome web browser . As of 2024, Chrome Web Store hosts about 138,000 extensions and 33,000 themes.
51-790: Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content hosted on Chrome Web Store. Some extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware . In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. The following year, Google acknowledged that about five percent of visits to its own websites had been altered by extensions with adware. Malware remains
102-510: A Chromium -based browser. (Chromium is Google's open-source project that serves as the functional core of Chrome and many other browsers.) Now that Edge has the same API as Chrome, extensions can be installed directly from the Chrome Web Store. In 2015, Mozilla announced that the long-standing XUL and XPCOM extension capabilities of Firefox would be replaced with a less-permissive API very similar to Chrome's. This change
153-476: A complete free software implementation of crypto libraries supporting SSL and S/MIME . NSS is licensed under the GPL -compatible Mozilla Public License 2.0. AOL , Red Hat , Sun Microsystems / Oracle Corporation , Google and other companies and individual contributors have co-developed NSS and it is used in a wide range of non-Mozilla products including Evolution , Pidgin , and LibreOffice . SpiderMonkey
204-402: A different type of module and no longer supported by the major browsers. One difference is that extensions are distributed as source code , while plug-ins are executables (i.e. object code ). The most popular browser, Google Chrome , has over 100,000 extensions available but stopped supporting plug-ins in 2020. Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with
255-539: A model, permissions, and a common core of APIs". However, Google joined this during its overhaul of Chrome's extension API, known as Manifest V3 , which greatly reduces the capability of ad blockers and privacy -related extensions. Thus the WebExtensions group is viewed by some extension developers as nothing more than Google imposing its Manifest V3 design. Browser extensions typically have access to sensitive data, such as browsing history , and they have
306-403: A problem on Chrome Web Store. In January 2018, Researchers from security firm ICEBRG found four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads. In February 2021, Google blocked "The Great Suspender", a popular extension with 2,000,000 users after it was reported that malicious code was added to it. Chrome used to allow extensions hosted on Chrome Web Store to also be installed at
357-498: A report released in November 2012, Mozilla reported that their revenue for 2011 was $ 163 million, up 33% from $ 123 million in 2010. It noted that roughly 85% of their revenue came from their contract with Google. At the end of 2013, Mozilla announced a deal with Cisco , whereby Firefox would download and use a Cisco-provided binary build of an open-source codec to play the proprietary H.264 video format. As part of
408-399: A standalone app that could be set as the device's default password manager. Firefox Monitor is an online service that informs users if their email address and passwords have been leaked in data breaches . Firefox Send was an online encrypted file-transfer service offered by Mozilla. In September 2020, Mozilla announced that it would be decommissioned and would no longer be part of
459-542: A variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system for both free and open-source software and proprietary projects and products, including the Mozilla Foundation , the Linux kernel , KDE , Red Hat , Eclipse and LibreOffice . WebThings is a framework that allowed management of IoT devices through a single framework, gateway and UI. It was based on W3C Web of Things standard. Since 2020, it
510-472: A web browser component, a client for sending and receiving email and Usenet newsgroup messages, an HTML editor ( Mozilla Composer ) and the ChatZilla IRC client. On March 10, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that it would not release any official versions of Mozilla Application Suite beyond 1.7.x, since it had now focused on the stand-alone applications Firefox and Thunderbird . SeaMonkey
561-410: A wide range of devices, from desktop browsers to mobile VR headsets like Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard . It also integrates with other popular web technologies, such as Three.js, to provide advanced capabilities for developers. As part of Mozilla’s broader efforts in promoting the immersive web and WebXR (a standard for virtual and augmented reality experiences on the web), A-Frame has contributed to
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#1732772416571612-411: A wide range of products and services, supporting millions of active account customers globally. As such, the original “Firefox” branding no longer accurately reflects the broad scope of Mozilla's offerings. The renaming is intended to create a more consistent brand experience across all Mozilla surfaces, driving higher awareness of the portfolio of Mozilla products. Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec )
663-455: Is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser for Android and iOS . Initially released in 2015 as only a tracker -blocking application for iOS, it has since been developed into a full mobile browser for both iOS and Android. Firefox Lockwise was a password manager offered by Mozilla. On desktop, it was a built-in feature of the Firefox browser. On mobile, it was offered as
714-424: Is no longer affiliated with Mozilla. It was spun off as an independent project following layoffs in 2020. It was known as Project Things and allowed users to use a Raspberry Pi as a gateway for IoT management with decentralized software. Network Security Services (NSS) comprises a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. NSS provides
765-496: Is no plan to charge money for things that are now free. So we will roll out a subscription service and offer a premium level." In September, Mozilla revealed their new offering, Firefox Premium Support, at $ 10 per installation. However, shortly after news broke of the service, Mozilla removed information about it from the website. Computerworld reported that in an email statement, Mozilla claimed "the page outlining that these paid support services for enterprise clients will be available
816-704: Is now maintained by the SeaMonkey Council, which has trademarked the SeaMonkey name with help from the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation provides project hosting for the SeaMonkey developers. Bugzilla is a web -based general-purpose bug tracking system , which was released as free software by Netscape Communications in 1998 along with the rest of the Mozilla codebase, and is currently stewarded by Mozilla. It has been adopted by
867-859: Is supported institutionally by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation . Mozilla's current products include the Firefox web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client (now through a subsidiary), the Bugzilla bug tracking system, the Gecko layout engine, and the Pocket "read-it-later-online" service. On January 23, 1998, Netscape announced that its Netscape Communicator browser software would be free, and that its source code would also be free. One day later, Jamie Zawinski of Netscape registered mozilla.org . The project took its name, "Mozilla", from
918-521: Is the build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers . Initially available on multiple platforms, it is now available in two versions: Firefox for Android and Firefox for iOS . Firefox for Android runs on the Android mobile operating system and uses the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox ; for example, version 1.0 used
969-532: Is the original JavaScript engine developed by Brendan Eich when he invented JavaScript in 1995 as a developer at Netscape . It became part of the Mozilla product family when Mozilla inherited Netscape's code-base in 1998. In 2011, Eich transferred the nominal ownership of the SpiderMonkey code and project to Dave Mandelin. SpiderMonkey is a cross-platform engine written in C++ which implements ECMAScript ,
1020-599: The Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. The following year, Google acknowledged that about five percent of visits to its own websites had been altered by extensions with adware. Mozilla Mozilla (stylized as moz://a ) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape . The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions. The community
1071-479: The Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client, and moved to supply them directly to the public. Mozilla's activities next expanded, and also experienced product terminations, with Firefox on mobile platforms (primarily Android ), a mobile OS called Firefox OS (since cancelled), a web-based identity system called Mozilla Persona (since cancelled) and a marketplace for HTML5 applications. In
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#17327724165711122-430: The Firefox browser as the flagship product . The Firefox web browser is available in both desktop and mobile versions. It uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards . As of late 2015 , Firefox had approximately 10–11% of worldwide usage share of web browsers , making it the 4th most-used web browser. Firefox began as an experimental branch of
1173-495: The internet , saying: "The open, global internet is the most powerful communication and collaboration resource we have ever seen. It embodies some of our deepest hopes for human progress." It then outlines what Mozilla sees as its place in the development of the internet, stating "The Mozilla project uses a community-based approach to create world-class open source software and to develop new types of collaborative activities". And finally, it lays out their ten principles: According to
1224-810: The open source slab serif font Zilla Slab . In 2020 Mozilla announced it would cut 25% of its worldwide staff of nearly 1,000 to reduce costs. Firefox has fallen from 30% market share to 4% in 10 years. Despite this, executive pay increased 400%, with Mitchell Baker , Mozilla’s top executive, receiving $ 2.4m in 2018. In December 2020, Mozilla closed its Mountain View office. Seeking new products and roles while sustaining commitment to Firefox though Firefox's market share has so far dwindled dramatically, Executive Chairwoman and CEO Baker, Chief Product Officer Steve Teixeira and Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Mark Surman told Tech Crunch in November 2022 that fundamental business models are being rethought, and new roles in
1275-496: The Internet. It was announced that it would be acquired by the Mozilla Corporation , the commercial arm of Mozilla's non-profit development group, on February 27, 2017. Originally designed only for desktop browsers, it is now available for macOS , Windows , iOS , Android , Windows Phone , BlackBerry , Kobo eReaders , and web browsers . Thunderbird is a free software , cross-platform email and news client developed by
1326-587: The Mozilla Foundation: The Mozilla Foundation pledges to support the Mozilla Manifesto in its activities. Specifically, we will: Throughout the 2020 year, Mozilla ran Mozilla Builders, "an experimental 'Fix-The-Internet' incubator program". It funded 80 projects through three subprograms: The Startup Studio, The MVP Lab and The Open Lab. The site for this program is now archived. On November 2, 2022, at
1377-551: The Mozilla codebase by Dave Hyatt , Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross , who believed the commercial requirements of Netscape 's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat , they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. Firefox was originally named Phoenix but
1428-583: The Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal and simultaneously online, Mozilla announced the early 2023 launch of Mozilla Ventures, a venture capital and product incubation facility out of Mozilla for independent start-ups, seed to Series A which qualify under the ethos of the Mozilla Manifesto, with a starting fund of $ 35 million. Its founding Managing Partner is Mohamed Nanabhay who told Entrepreneur India
1479-569: The ability to alter some browser settings, add user interface items, or replace website content. As a result, there have been instances of malware , so users need to be cautious about what extensions they install. There have also been cases of applications installing browser extensions without the user's knowledge , making it hard for the user to uninstall the unwanted extension. Some Google Chrome extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware . In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from
1530-608: The community chooses. On July 11, 2023, the Thunderbird blog announced the release of a new version of Thunderbird called Supernova. It features a new, modernized, user interface, among other new features. Changes have also been made to the older underlying code structure to make "maintenance and extensibility easier". SeaMonkey (formerly the Mozilla Application Suite) is a free and open-source cross-platform suite of Internet software components including
1581-458: The deal, Cisco would pay any patent licensing fees associated with the binaries that it distributed. Mozilla's CTO, Brendan Eich , acknowledged that it was "not a complete solution" and wasn't "perfect". An employee in Mozilla's video formats team, writing unofficially, justified it by the need to maintain their large user base, which would be necessary for future battles for truly free video formats. In December 2013, Mozilla announced funding for
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1632-554: The democratization of VR development. It allows creators to develop and share VR content that is accessible directly through a web browser, removing the need for specialized software or apps. A-Frame has since grown into a widely-used framework in the web development and VR communities, with contributions from developers around the world. Mozilla continues to support the project as part of its commitment to an open and immersive web. Firefox Private Relay provides users with disposable email addresses that can be used to combat spam (by hiding
1683-457: The developer's website for the sake of convenience. However, this became a malware vector, so it was removed in 2018. Browser extension A browser extension is a software module for customizing a web browser . Browsers typically allow users to install a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking , and the custom scripting and styling of web pages . Browser plug-ins are
1734-413: The development of paid games through its Game Creator Challenge. However, even games that would be released under non-free or free software licenses were required to be made with open web technologies and Javascript. In January 2017 the company rebranded away from its dinosaur symbol in favor of a logo including a "://" character sequence from a URL: "moz://a". As a part of the rebranding, it commissioned
1785-483: The internet as a human institution, that Mozilla's next 25 years' plan was in search of specifying projects for revised detailed purposes. The one actual general vehicle implemented "has meant the launch of Mozilla Ventures, a $ 35 million venture fund that the organization plans to use to invest in products and founders who want to build a better, privacy-respecting internet." The Mozilla Manifesto outlines Mozilla's goals and principles. It asserts Mozilla's commitment to
1836-543: The name was changed to avoid trademark conflicts with Phoenix Technologies . The initially-announced replacement, Firebird , provoked objections from the Firebird project community. The current name, Firefox, was chosen on February 9, 2004. It was previously announced that Mozilla would launch a premium version of the Firefox browser by October 2019. The company's CEO, Chris Beard, was quoted by The Next Web : "there
1887-499: The new community. Mozilla originally aimed to be a technology provider for companies such as Netscape, who would commercialize their free software code. When Netscape's parent company AOL greatly reduced its involvement with Mozilla in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation was designated the project's legal steward. Soon after, Mozilla deprecated the Mozilla Suite in favor of creating independent applications for each function, primarily
1938-557: The original code name of the Netscape Navigator browser—a portmanteau of " Mosaic and Godzilla ", and used to coordinate the development of the Mozilla Application Suite , the free software version of Netscape's internet software, Netscape Communicator . Zawinski said he arrived at the name "Mozilla" at a Netscape staff meeting. A small group of Netscape employees were tasked with coordinating
1989-447: The phone's hardware directly via JavaScript . Some devices using the OS include Alcatel One Touch Fire, ZTE Open, and LG Fireweb. Mozilla announced the end of Firefox OS development in December 2015. A fork of B2G, KaiOS , has continued development and ships with numerous low-cost devices. Pocket is a mobile application and web service for managing a reading list of articles from
2040-547: The product lineup. Mozilla VPN, formerly Firefox Private Network, is a subscription-based VPN and a free privacy extension. Mozilla developed A-Frame, an open-source web framework designed to simplify the creation of virtual reality (VR) and 3D experiences in web browsers. Released in 2015, A-Frame is built on top of WebGL and uses HTML -like syntax, making it accessible to web developers without requiring deep knowledge of complex 3D programming. A-Frame enables users to build immersive VR experiences that are compatible with
2091-458: The project, whose name was changed to Wolvic. Mozilla does not support Firefox Reality anymore. Firefox OS (project name: Boot to Gecko also known as B2G ) is a free software operating system developed by Mozilla to support HTML5 apps written using " open Web " technologies rather than platform-specific native APIs . The concept behind Firefox OS is that all user-accessible software will be HTML5 applications, using Open Web APIs to access
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2142-659: The pseudonymous e-mail addresses provided, @mozmail.com e-mail addresses have been switched. In September 2018, Mozilla announced that its VR version was ready for consumers to download. Called Firefox Reality, the browser was built entirely for virtual reality. It is currently available on the Oculus . In January 2019, HTC announced its partnership with Mozilla, under which the Firefox Reality web browser has been made available on Vive headsets. In February 2022, Mozilla announced that Igalia had assumed stewardship of
2193-514: The purpose is "to create an ecosystem of entrepreneurs from across the world who are building companies that create a better internet". Mozilla Foundation President and Executive Director Mark Surman named the first 3 investment recipients in the Mozilla Ventures mode, in discussions before Mozilla Ventures was announced, as Secure AI Labs, Block Party and HeyLogin. Firefox is a family of software products developed by Mozilla, with
2244-520: The release of version 4 in 1997. Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Opera and Chrome began supporting extensions in 2009, and Safari did so the following year. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. In 2015, a community group formed under the W3C to create a single standard application programming interface (API) for browser extensions. While this particular work did not reach fruition, every major browser now has
2295-609: The same engine as Firefox 3.6, and the following release, 4.0, shared core code with Firefox 4.0. Firefox for iOS, which runs on the iOS mobile operating system, does not use the Gecko Layout Engine because of Apple 's policy that all iOS apps that browse the web must use the built-in iOS WebKit rendering engine. Both version include features like HTML5 support, Firefox Sync , private browsing , web tracking protection, and tabbed browsing , and Firefox for Android also includes support for add-ons . Firefox Focus
2346-403: The same or very similar API due to the popularity of Google Chrome . Chrome was the first browser with an extension API based solely on HTML , CSS , and JavaScript . Beta testing for this capability began in 2009, and the following year Google opened the Chrome Web Store . As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installations of extensions and other content hosted on the store. In
2397-432: The same year, Chrome overtook Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser, and its usage share reached 60% in 2018. Because of Chrome's success, Microsoft created a very similar extension API for its Edge browser, with the goal of making it easy for Chrome extension developers to port their work to Edge. But after three years Edge still had a disappointingly small market share, so Microsoft rebuilt it as
2448-513: The user's real email address) and manage email subscriptions by categorizing them based on the party a particular address was given to. Firefox Relay was first released as a Firefox add-on on April 9, 2020. Mozilla announced Firefox Relay Premium monthly subscription service, ending Beta version of Firefox Relay on November 19, 2021. In addition to this, users who benefit from the subscription can receive unlimited alias emails as username@username.mozmail.com as @relay.firefox.com Instead of
2499-472: The volunteers of the Mozilla Community. On July 16, 2012, Mitchell Baker announced that Mozilla's leadership had come to the conclusion that ongoing stability was the most important thing for Thunderbird and that innovation in Thunderbird was no longer a priority for Mozilla. In that update, Baker also suggested that Mozilla had provided a pathway for its community to innovate around Thunderbird if
2550-487: Was enacted in 2017. Firefox extensions are now largely compatible with their Chrome counterparts. Apple was the last major exception to this trend, but support for extensions conforming to the Chrome API was added to Safari for macOS in 2020. Extensions were later enabled in the iOS version for the first time. In 2021, these browser vendors formed a new W3C community group, called WebExtensions, to "specify
2601-465: Was posted incorrectly." In October 2023, Mozilla announced that consumer 'Firefox accounts' were renamed to 'Mozilla accounts', explicitly indicating a desire to bring the Mozilla brand into greater prominence even with the diminution of some Firefox branding: Over the years, Firefox accounts expanded its role beyond being solely an authentication solution for Firefox Sync. It now serves as Mozilla's main authentication and account management service for
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