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44-465: The project has been superseded by the SeaMonkey Internet suite (SeaMonkey was the original code name for the project), a community-driven Internet suite that is based on the same source code, and continues to be developed with the newer Mozilla codebase. The Mozilla Suite was composed of several main programs: Navigator (a Web browser ), Communicator ( Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ),

88-555: A Google search for "apple". For the mail and newsgroup component, the built-in Bayesian e-mail spam filter could effectively filter out unwanted e-mail spam after a period of training. Mozilla introduced the extension model , which was expanded and improved by Firefox and Thunderbird. Through extensions (installed via XPInstall modules), users might activate new features, such as mouse gestures , advertisement blocking, proxy server switching, and debugging tools . One can view

132-594: A Web page developer ( Mozilla Composer ), an IRC client ( ChatZilla ) and an electronic address book. Also included were tools to synchronize the application with PalmPilot devices, and several extensions for advanced Web development, including the DOM Inspector , and Venkman (a JavaScript debugger ). Versions 6 and 7 of the Netscape suite were based on the Mozilla Suite. The last official version

176-550: A new theme, users could customize its interface by adding and removing some of its buttons and toolbars. Additionally, Mozilla stored most of its preferences in a list that users could access by typing about:config in the address bar. Some preferences were only available through it, like turning on bookmark icons. The Mozilla Foundation took pride in Mozilla's compliance with existing standards, especially W3C Web standards. Mozilla had extensive support for most basic standards at

220-470: A profile might be used on multiple platforms, as long as all of the platforms could access the profile (e.g., the profile was stored on a FAT32 partition accessible from both Windows and Linux). This functionality was useful for users who dual-boot their machines. However, it might occasionally cause problems, especially with extensions. Mozilla came with three Web development tools — a DOM Inspector , Venkman and JavaScript Console . The DOM Inspector

264-567: A separate user interface mode may be used instead of a dialog box. The first documented use of incremental search was in EMACS on ITS in the late 1970s. This was one of the many essential Emacs features Richard Stallman included in his reimplementation, GNU Emacs . Other noteworthy programs containing this functionality in the 1980s include bash and Canon Cat . These early implementations offered single line feedback, not lists of suggestions. The first mainstream appearance may have been in

308-561: A separate numbering scheme, with the first release being called SeaMonkey 1.0. Despite having a different name and version number, SeaMonkey 1.0 is based on the same code as Mozilla Application Suite 1.7. For trademark and copyright reasons, Debian rebranded SeaMonkey and distributed it as Iceape until 2013. 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

352-500: A strong advocate of incremental search. In his 2000 book The Humane Interface , he wrote, "From the point of view of interface engineering, the advantages of incremental searching are so numerous and the advantages of delimited searches so few that I can see almost no occasions when a delimited search would be preferred." This was followed by a footnote reading, "A search is either incremental or excremental." Incremental search has been criticised for exhibiting low affordance , as

396-600: Is HTML 4.01 Transitional. To avoid confusing organizations that still want to use the original Mozilla Application Suite, the new product needed a new name. After initial speculation by members of the community, a July 2, 2005 announcement confirmed that SeaMonkey would officially become the name of the Internet suite superseding the Mozilla Application Suite. "Seamonkey" (with a lowercase "m") refers to brine shrimp and had been used by Netscape and

440-442: Is 1.7.13, as Mozilla Foundation is currently focusing on the development of Firefox and Thunderbird . The Mozilla Suite is available under the terms of the Mozilla project's tri-license , as free and open-source software . In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code base for its popular Netscape Communicator suite under an open source license. The name of the application developed from this would be Mozilla, coordinated by

484-533: Is a traditional e-mail client that includes support for multiple accounts, junk mail detection, message filters, HTML message support, and address books, among other features such as a calendar. It shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird ; both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are built from Mozilla's comm-central source tree. SeaMonkey Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor descended from Mozilla Composer . Its main user interface features four tabs: Normal (WYSIWYG), HTML tags, HTML code, and browser preview. The generated code

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528-551: Is generated as the search query is typed, and the list is progressively narrowed to match the filter text. In September 2010, Google introduced Google Instant , an incremental search feature for Google Search. Incremental search on a non-local server, as in Web search, uses more network bandwidth and server processing than non-incremental search, due to the handling of XMLHttpRequests (or similar) which are typically fired from each onkeyup event . Interface expert Jef Raskin has been

572-408: Is to filter through long lists of options or menu items that may appear within the user interface itself. Examples of this variation can be found in the about:config interface section of Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.14 and later versions; and in the bundle editor section of TextMate 1.5.7. This feature is also employed in application launchers such as Quicksilver 1.0. Typically a list of matches

616-469: The GNU -style / (also applicable to Vim ), or Emacs -style C-s . This user interface method is also employed in varying contexts. For example, a user may encounter this feature while searching for files whose names match a string in an operating system's file explorer shell. The feature may also be used during searches for songs whose name or artist match a string in a media player. Another variation

660-565: The AOL banner, the Mozilla Organization continued development of the browser and management of the Mozilla source until July 2003 when this task was passed to the Mozilla Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit organization composed primarily of developers and staff from mozilla.org and owns the Mozilla trademark (but not the copyright to the source code, which is retained by the individual and corporate contributors, but licensed under

704-478: The Acid2 test. The mail and newsgroup supported POP and IMAP. It also supported LDAP address completion. Both reading and writing of HTML e-mails were supported. Mail files were stored in mbox format, and were thus portable. The first version of the suite, i.e., the one that formed the basis of Netscape 6 , did not support the blink element , thus making it the only Netscape/Mozilla browser that has not supported

748-429: The Mozilla Foundation announced that they would not release any further official versions of the suite beyond 1.7.x. However, the Mozilla Foundation emphasized that they would provide infrastructure for community members who wished to continue development. In effect, this means that the suite will still continue to be developed, but not by the Mozilla Foundation itself. To avoid confusing organizations that still want to use

792-424: The Mozilla Foundation as a code name for the never-released Netscape Communicator 5 and later the Mozilla Application Suite itself. Originally, the name "Seamonkey" was derived by Netscape management to replace "Buttmonkey", which their developers had chosen following an internal contest for the codename. The SeaMonkey Council has now trademarked the name with help from the Mozilla Foundation. The project uses

836-414: The Mozilla Foundation operated a "bug bounty" scheme: Users who reported a valid critical security bug received a US$ 500 cash reward for each report and a Mozilla T-shirt. The purpose of this "bug bounty" system, according to the Mozilla Foundation, was to "encourage more people to find and report security bugs in our products, so that we can make our products even more secure than they already are". Anyone in

880-468: The Mozilla Suite, it was announced that the new, community-developed product would be named " SeaMonkey ", with version numbers that start at "1.0". Mozilla supported tabbed browsing , which allows users to open multiple Web pages in the same browser window. Originally only available through the MultiZilla extension, the feature was then implemented directly within the browser. Mozilla also belonged in

924-415: The Mozilla development roadmap published on April 2, 2003, the Mozilla Organization planned to focus development efforts on the new standalone applications: Phoenix (now known as Mozilla Firefox ) and Minotaur (now known as Mozilla Thunderbird ). To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is marketed as "Mozilla Suite" or the more lengthy "Mozilla Application Suite". On March 10, 2005,

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968-477: The SeaMonkey release notes , and status meetings . This is the last version to support Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and PowerPC Macs Incremental find In computing , incremental search , also known as hot search , incremental find or real-time suggestions , is a user interface interaction method to progressively search for and filter through text. As the user types text, one or more possible matches for

1012-598: The Speller for WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows, released 30 November 1992. As programmer Robert John Stevens, now CEO of WriteExpress, watched users at the WordPerfect Usability Lab in Orem, Utah use the 5.1 Speller that he and Steven M. Cannon ported to Windows, he noticed that when a word was not found in the dictionary and no alternative words were presented, users seemed lost, moved the mouse cursor around

1056-474: The extension system as a ground for experimentation, where one can test new functionalities. Occasionally, an extension, or a part of it, became part of the official product (for example MultiZilla's tabbed browsing feature eventually became part of the standard Mozilla). Mozilla also supported a variety of themes/skins, which changed its appearance. Themes consisted of packages of CSS and image files. The Mozilla Add-ons Web site offered many themes. Beyond adding

1100-411: The first instance found. As the user typed more of the word, the browser refined its search. Additionally, Mozilla supported the "custom keyword" feature. This feature allowed users to access their bookmarks from the location bar using keywords (and an optional query parameter). For example, using a custom keyword, a user could type "google apple" into the address bar and be redirected to the results of

1144-524: The former Mozilla Application Suite , based on the same source code , which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape 7 . SeaMonkey was created in 2005 after the Mozilla Foundation decided to focus on the standalone projects Firefox and Thunderbird . The development of SeaMonkey is community-driven, in contrast to the Mozilla Application Suite, which until its last released version (1.7.13)

1188-441: The group of browsers who early on adopted customizable pop-up blocking, and granular cookie management, including cookie prompts. The browser had a number of features which helped users find information. First, Mozilla had an incremental find feature known as "find as you type". With this feature enabled, a user could simply begin typing a word while viewing a Web page, and the browser automatically searched for it and highlighted

1232-449: The latter switched to WebExtensions . SeaMonkey consists of a web browser , which is a descendant of the Netscape family, an e-mail and news client program (SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, which shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird ), an HTML editor (SeaMonkey Composer) and an IRC client ( ChatZilla ). The software suite supports skins . It comes with two skins in the default installation, Modern and Classic. SeaMonkey Mail

1276-545: The most serious one marked "less critical". From 1998 to 2004, the global usage share of Mozilla grew from a negligible amount to about 3%. Because of the Foundation's plan to switch development focus to standalone applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird, many new features and enhancements were not available for Mozilla. This, combined with the community marketing effort named " Spread Firefox ", drew more and more users away from Mozilla since late 2004, when Firefox 1.0

1320-401: The newly created Mozilla Organization, at the mozilla.org Web site. Although large parts of the original Communicator code, including the layout engine and front-end related codes, were abandoned shortly thereafter, the Mozilla Organization eventually succeeded in producing a full-featured Internet suite that surpassed Communicator in features, stability and degree of standards compliance. Under

1364-461: The notorious tag that Netscape itself created. Later versions of the suite supported the element as well as the marquee tag , originally created by rival Internet Explorer . Mozilla ran on a wide variety of platforms. Releases available on the primary distribution site supported the following operating systems: Mozilla used the same format to store users' profiles (which contain their personal browser settings) even on different operating systems, so

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1408-826: The page and even exited the Speller. Dumbstruck by the anomaly, he went home, sat on the couch, and discussed his observations with his wife. Stevens coded the solution: as a user typed in the edit box, Speller would suggest words beginning with the letters entered. "You can type in the Replace With box any word you want to find. As you type letters into the box, possible matches are displayed." This feature, or variations thereof, has also been referred to as Autocomplete , search as you type , filter/find as you type (FAYT), incremental search , typeahead search , inline search , instant search , word wheeling , and other names as well. Some common keyboard shortcuts for incremental find are Ctrl/Cmd-F (like for traditional find), F3,

1452-406: The same capabilities and image quality as PNG. Mozilla had implemented most of CSS Level 2 and some of the not-yet-completed CSS Level 3 standard. It was among the first browsers to pass the original Box Acid Test , although it doesn't fully pass the more rigorous Acid2 test for HTML, CSS, and PNG standards support. Other browsers based on newer versions of Mozilla's core technology, however, pass

1496-478: The security team until after Mozilla has shipped a fix for the problem. This is intended to deter the exploitation of publicly known vulnerabilities and give the developers time to issue a patch. While similar to other " responsible disclosure " policies issued by companies such as Microsoft, this policy is opposed to the full disclosure principle favored by some security researchers. As of June 2005, Secunia had reported three unpatched vulnerabilities in Mozilla with

1540-471: The standalone applications Firefox and Thunderbird . However, the Foundation emphasized that it would still provide infrastructure for community members who wished to continue development. In effect, this meant that the suite would still continue to be developed, but now by the SeaMonkey Council instead of the Mozilla Foundation. SeaMonkey was first released on September 15, 2005. SeaMonkey 1

1584-569: The terms of the GPL and MPL ). It received initial donations from AOL, IBM , Sun Microsystems , Red Hat , and Mitch Kapor . However, all official ties with AOL were severed following the announcement of the end of the Netscape Navigator browser and AOL's agreement to use Microsoft 's Internet Explorer browser in future versions of its AOL software. AOL has since announced it will be using Mozilla's Gecko layout engine . According to

1628-430: The text are found and immediately presented to the user. This immediate feedback often allows the user to stop short of typing the entire word or phrase they were looking for. The user may also choose a closely related option from the presented list. The method of incremental search is sometimes distinguished from user interfaces that employ a modal window , such as a dialog box , to enter searches. For some applications,

1672-410: The time including HTML , XML , XHTML , CSS , JavaScript , DOM , MathML , DTD , XSLT and XPath . Mozilla also supported PNG images and variable transparency, (which Internet Explorer only supported fully in version 7 ). Indeed, Internet Explorer's lack of support for PNG images has occasioned much debate, as many Web developers wanted to move away from the old GIF format, which does not have

1716-418: The use of the sandbox security model , same origin policy and external protocol whitelisting. One key characteristic of Mozilla security was that its source code is visible to everyone. Proposed software changes were reviewed by at least one other person, and typically "super-reviewed" by yet another, and once placed in the software were visible for anyone else to consider, protest, or improve. In addition,

1760-409: The world could report a bug. Also, access to the source code of Mozilla Firefox, internal design documentation, forum discussions, and other materials that could be helpful in finding bugs were available to anyone. The Mozilla Foundation has issued a security bugs policy to help contributors to deal with security vulnerabilities. The policy restricts access to a security-related bug report to members of

1804-543: Was governed by the Mozilla Foundation . The new project-leading group is called the SeaMonkey Council . Compared to Firefox, the SeaMonkey web browser keeps the more traditional-looking interface of Netscape and the Mozilla Application Suite, most notably the XUL architecture. This allows the user to extend SeaMonkey by modifying add-ons for Thunderbird or the add-ons that were formerly compatible with Firefox before

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1848-546: Was not available in non-Mozilla browsers, and the JavaScript Console was more advanced than the consoles available in non-Mozilla browsers. Venkman was a difficult to use but decent JavaScript debugger. These were installed by default, though you could opt them out (except for the JavaScript Console) with the other install options. Mozilla was designed with security in mind. Among its key features were

1892-414: Was released on January 30, 2006. Core Mozilla project source code was licensed under a disjunctive tri-license (before changing to MPL 2.0) that gave the choice of one of the three following sets of licensing terms: Mozilla Public License , version 1.1 or later, GNU General Public License , version 2.0 or later, GNU Lesser General Public License , version 2.1 or later. Parts of this table are based on

1936-407: Was released. There were no official releases of the Mozilla Suite beyond version 1.7.13. As of 2008, Mozilla Suite usage share was approximately 0.1%. SeaMonkey , a community-driven Internet suite that is based on the same source code, is pursued by those that appreciated Mozilla's feature set. SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite . It is the continuation of

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