Time flies when you're having fun

By mitchell

July 14, 2004

It's already been a year since the Mozilla Foundation was created, and it's been quite a year. The Mozilla Foundation has prospered, our products are receiving rave reviews, consumer and enterprise interest in Mozilla products is at an all time high, the awareness of the importance of choice in browser software is growing and our community remains vigorous and energetic.

The Mozilla project has long been an open source technology leader. With our new Firefox and Thunderbird products, we are now focusing on bringing a better Internet experience to millions of new users.

There have been many highlights for the Mozilla Foundation this year:

The results?

Most importantly, the tide is finally beginning to turn: after years of increasing monopolization of the web browser market, Mozilla-based browsers (browsers based on the Gecko rendering engine, that is) are now gaining modest but noticeable market share. Both Web Side Story and OneStat.com, leading web analytics firms, confirm [ http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622837,00.asp ] this trend.

All of this terrific news wouldn't have been possible without help from lots of individuals and organizations. The Mozilla Foundation is a small organization (just a dozen people), but we have lots of friends and contributors:

What's next? Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 - just around the corner. But don't wait. Download the preview releases today and help spread the word. And if you prefer to go with a proven, mature Internet suite that's been around for years, make sure to download Mozilla 1.7.

Help us take back the web!

- The Mozilla Team

10:10 PM

Copyright 2004