Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Corporation is a technology company offering internet products and solutions. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was established in August 2005 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit organization that set the guiding principles of the Mozilla Corporation through the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit entity that serves the goals of its parent and the larger Mozilla community.

Mozilla Corporation, along with the community of contributors and collaborators, design, build, and distribute software intended to allow users to enjoy the internet. The flagship product of Mozilla Corporation is the Firefox browser, which has expanded to include a family of products to maintain users' privacy, protect their identity, and safeguard their passwords. Mozilla Corporation is committed to using open-sourced software products and supporting the open-source software community. The original Mozilla project was spun off from Netscape Communications in 1998 when the original Netscape Navigator internet browser was made open-source.

Firefox is an internet browser product made by Mozilla Corporation. The original Firefox browser was released in 2002. It was known at the time as Phoenix and included features for bookmarking and the ability to add extensions to modify or customize the browser. The name was changed in 2004 to Firebird after trademark disputes with the company Phoenix Technologies, and the name of the browser was changed again to Firefox to avoid confusion with another open-source project named Firebird.

The first Firefox browser (version 0.8) was launched with an installer for Windows OS and used Google as its default search engine, allowing users to add other search engines manually. Soon after, they expanded to include extensions to allow users to modify or customize their browser. In November 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released. This release began to take a significant share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and was later expanded to the worldwide market with additional language support.

The browser continued to be updated to continue to provide users with security features, including protection against viruses, malicious software, and phishing software. Ease-of-use features were added, such as the ability to restore tabs. And support was added for page-rendering engines to improve performance and faster JavaScript engine and support for HTML 5.0. By 2009, Firefox became the most widely used open-source software in the world, and in 2010, Firefox surpassed Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser in Europe. However, with the introduction of Google's Chrome, Firefox lost market share, and in 2021, it was the fourth most popular browser worldwide with an estimated 3.9 percent of the browser market.

Firefox is made to protect user privacy and not provide back doors to advertisers looking to obtain user data. It can block third-party tracking cookies, autoplay, and social trackers; take in-browser screenshots; and allow users to have a master password. It is available on multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) and supports use in over ninety languages.

Firefox has developed mobile versions of the browser for Android OS and iOS users. The browser offers the same security and privacy features as the desktop browser, allowing users to pick preferred extensions, curate their home screen, pin videos to their phone's screen for multitasking, and use a preferred search engine.

Firefox Focus is a dedicated privacy browser with automatic tracking protection and is intended to keep the user's identity and browsing private. The removal of trackers on various pages, including social trackers and sticky trackers from various ads, allows the Firefox Focus browser to load faster. Further, the browser allows users to delete their history, passwords, and cookies at the tap of a button on the search field.

The Firefox Monitor is a Firefox tool that works to prevent hackers from getting a user's account details and breached passwords. Further, it offers alerts for users when their personal information is compromised in a new breach.

The Firefox Facebook Container works to allow users to stop Facebook tracking through their browser and internet activity. The extension allows users to remove ties of their browsing activity with their Facebook identity while still allowing users to use Facebook as normal.

The Pocket for Firefox extension allows users to save stories from across the web and stores them in a quiet and private place where users can read those stories. Similarly, the editors of the Pocket extension find stories that dig deep into a subject, offer a new perspective, or in any way offer thought-provoking content.

The Mozilla VPN is a virtual private network (VPN) that allows users to maintain their privacy while browsing the internet, whether they are traveling, using public WiFi, or looking for increased online security. The Mozilla VPN runs on a global network of servers and uses WireGuard protocol to encrypt network activity and hide users' IP addresses. Further, the VPN is developed to never log, track, or share network data.

Firefox Relay is a browser extension developed for the Firefox browser and offers email and phone masks to keep users' identities private, allow them to anonymously sign up for new accounts, and help stop spam texts and calls.

The MDN Plus is a virtual library users can curate themselves or have curated for them by Mozilla and can act as a changelog for the web, allowing users to personalize and filter compatibility changes based on browsers or technology a user is interested in. The MDN is developed to offer an ad-free subscription service and to work offline as necessary.

On January 1, 2012, Mozilla Corporation announced awarding grant money ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to companies, totaling $1.2 million from its Gigabit Community Fund. The grants were made to education organizations requiring the grant money to deliver at least 1 gigabit per second internet speed to their customers. Companies receiving support from the Gigabit Community Fund were operating in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri; Austin, Texas; Eugene, Oregon; and Lafayette, Louisiana.

On June 9, 2016, Mozilla Corporation announced raising $500,000 for their Mozilla Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund. The Mozilla Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund is made to support open-source cybersecurity, code auditing, and software bug-fixing projects. The fund will be used to pay cybersecurity firms to perform code audits of open-source projects and help implement software management and software development.

Mozilla Ventures was announced in November 2022 and aims to invest in early-stage start-ups with products or technologies that are considered to advance one or more of the values found in the Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla Manifesto; this includes values such as privacy, inclusion, transparency, accessibility, and human dignity. This is intended to align with a long-term strategy of fueling an ecosystem of products and technology that make the internet a healthier place. Mozilla committed $35 million to anchor the fund.