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56-405: The manifesto, adapted from principles Mozilla had held since it was founded in 1998, was written by Mitchell Baker and originally published in 2007. As a result of the subsequent evolution of the internet, which led Baker to believe that "the power of the internet [has been] used to magnify divisiveness, incite violence, promote hatred, and intentionally manipulate fact and reality", the manifesto

112-438: A .wav or .aiff file) has long been a standard across multiple platforms, but its transmission over networks is slow and expensive compared with more modern compressed formats, such as Opus and MP3. Many multimedia data streams contain both audio and video , and often some metadata that permits synchronization of audio and video. Each of these three streams may be handled by different programs, processes, or hardware; but for

168-476: 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

224-531: A lower bit rate. There are thousands of audio and video codecs, ranging in cost from free to hundreds of dollars or more. This variety of codecs can create compatibility and obsolescence issues. The impact is lessened for older formats, for which free or nearly-free codecs have existed for a long time. The older formats are often ill-suited to modern applications, however, such as playback on small portable devices. For example, raw uncompressed PCM audio (44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo, as represented on an audio CD or in

280-402: A pledge outlining Mozilla's commitments. These are to: 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 is supported institutionally by

336-498: 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

392-399: 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

448-472: A standard developed from JavaScript. It comprises an interpreter , several just-in-time compilers , a decompiler and a garbage collector . Products which embed SpiderMonkey include Firefox , Thunderbird , SeaMonkey , and many non-Mozilla applications. Codec A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal . Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder . In electronic communications, an endec

504-542: 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

560-472: 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

616-410: 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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672-411: 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 )

728-447: Is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or data stream, and hence is a type of codec. Endec is a portmanteau of encoder/decoder . A coder or encoder encodes a data stream or a signal for transmission or storage, possibly in encrypted form, and the decoder function reverses the encoding for playback or editing. Codecs are used in videoconferencing , streaming media , and video editing applications. In

784-455: 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

840-409: Is being compressed and uses it as a disguise. This disguise appears as a codec download through a pop-up alert or ad. When a user goes to click or download that codec, the malware is then installed on the computer. Once a fake codec is installed it is often used to access private data, corrupt an entire computer system or to keep spreading the malware. One of the previous most used ways to spread malware

896-424: 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

952-401: Is no longer identifiable (visually, audibly, or both). Using more than one codec or encoding scheme successively can also degrade quality significantly. The decreasing cost of storage capacity and network bandwidth has a tendency to reduce the need for lossy codecs for some media. Many popular codecs are lossy. They reduce quality in order to maximize compression. Often, this type of compression

1008-496: 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

1064-441: Is not an ISO standard . There are also other well-known container formats, such as Ogg , ASF , QuickTime , RealMedia , Matroska , and DivX Media Format . MPEG transport stream , MPEG program stream , MP4 , and ISO base media file format are examples of container formats that are ISO standardized. Fake codecs are used when an online user takes a type of codec and installs viruses and other malware into whatever data

1120-704: 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

1176-521: 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

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1232-717: Is the codecs used in the sound cards of personal computers. A video codec accomplishes the same task for video signals. When implementing the Infrared Data Association (IrDA) protocol, an endec may be used between the UART and the optoelectronic systems. In addition to encoding a signal, a codec may also compress the data to reduce transmission bandwidth or storage space. Compression codecs are classified primarily into lossy codecs and lossless codecs. Lossless codecs are often used for archiving data in compressed form while retaining all information present in

1288-532: 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 ,

1344-630: Is virtually indistinguishable from the original uncompressed sound or images, depending on the codec and the settings used. The most widely used lossy data compression technique in digital media is based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT), used in compression standards such as JPEG images, H.26x and MPEG video, and MP3 and AAC audio. Smaller data sets ease the strain on relatively expensive storage sub-systems such as non-volatile memory and hard disk , as well as write-once-read-many formats such as CD-ROM , DVD , and Blu-ray Disc . Lower data rates also reduce cost and improve performance when

1400-479: 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

1456-481: 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

1512-495: 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

1568-776: 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

1624-810: 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

1680-496: 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

1736-587: 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

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1792-551: 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

1848-583: 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

1904-608: 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

1960-675: The data is transmitted, e.g., over the internet. Two principal techniques are used in codecs, pulse-code modulation and delta modulation . Codecs are often designed to emphasize certain aspects of the media to be encoded. For example, a digital video (using a DV codec) of a sports event needs to encode motion well but not necessarily exact colors, while a video of an art exhibit needs to encode color and surface texture well. Audio codecs for cell phones need to have very low latency between source encoding and playback. In contrast, audio codecs for recording or broadcasting can use high-latency audio compression techniques to achieve higher fidelity at

2016-458: 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

2072-554: 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

2128-413: 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

2184-483: 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

2240-490: The mid-20th century, a codec was a device that coded analog signals into digital form using pulse-code modulation (PCM). Later, the name was also applied to software for converting between digital signal formats, including companding functions. An audio codec converts analog audio signals into digital signals for transmission or encodes them for storage. A receiving device converts the digital signals back to analog form using an audio decoder for playback. An example of this

2296-408: The multimedia data streams to be useful in stored or transmitted form, they must be encapsulated together in a container format . Lower bitrate codecs allow more users, but they also have more distortion. Beyond the initial increase in distortion, lower bit rate codecs also achieve their lower bit rates by using more complex algorithms that make certain assumptions, such as those about the media and

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2352-543: 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

2408-499: 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

2464-557: 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

2520-421: The original stream. If preserving the original quality of the stream is more important than eliminating the correspondingly larger data sizes, lossless codecs are preferred. This is especially true if the data is to undergo further processing (for example, editing ) in which case the repeated application of processing (encoding and decoding) on lossy codecs will degrade the quality of the resulting data such that it

2576-538: The packet loss rate. Other codecs may not make those same assumptions. When a user with a low bitrate codec talks to a user with another codec, additional distortion is introduced by each transcoding . Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is sometimes erroneously described as a codec, but AVI is actually a container format, while a codec is a software or hardware tool that encodes or decodes audio or video into or from some audio or video format. Audio and video encoded with many codecs might be put into an AVI container, although AVI

2632-503: 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

2688-547: 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

2744-458: 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

2800-659: 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

2856-514: 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

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2912-609: 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

2968-513: 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

3024-472: 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

3080-465: 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

3136-579: Was updated on the 20th anniversary of the founding of Mozilla in 2018 to add values of human dignity, tolerance, and civil discourse. The manifesto outlines the guiding principles of the Mozilla Foundation and includes a pledge for how it will further those principles. It also asserts Mozilla's commitment to 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." The manifesto lays out 10 key principles: The manifesto also includes

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