February 2005
Beginner
384 pages
9h 8m
English
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Mozilla
| Fedora/GNOME menu | Internet > Web Browser |
| Mandrake/KDE menu | Internet > Web Browsers > Mozilla |
| Terminal command | mozilla |
| Program URL | http://www.mozilla.org |
Let me tell you a tale of a little browser rendering engine that was developed by a big company, was abandoned by that company, and then rose to become even greater than that company. Let me tell you a tale about the Mozilla Web browser (see Figure 5.1). In the late 1990s, facing the rise of Internet Explorer in the browser wars, Netscape released its code as an open source software project. It created a team of developers, called the Mozilla Organization, to work on the project. Netscape was both supporting the open source software community and enlisting its help to move the Netscape ...