Introducing Mozilla

March 31, 1998 — Netscape Communicator source code is posted on the Internet via mozilla.org.
Firefox Web browser holds 20% of the worldwide market share.
The community is governed by a virtual management team made up of unpaid experts and employees from a range of companies, including the Mozilla Corporation, IBM and Red Hat.
Specific community contributions include:
1. Fixing a bug or contributing code — there are over 1,000 community code contributors, 20,000 nightly testers and 500,000 beta testers.
2. Developing over 3,000 Firefox Add-ons, the small bits of downloaded software to customize the Firefox Web browser.
3. Creating versions of Firefox in over 40 languages.

March 31, 1998 — Netscape Communicator source code is posted on the Internet via mozilla.org.