History:Timelines

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• April 1, 1998 – Communicator source code released and mozilla.org created
• November 10, 1998 – Move to Gecko announced
• September 25, 2000 – New Mozilla roadmap published
• November 14, 2000 – Netscape 6 released
• eptember, 2001 - relicensing begins, Mozilla to be relicensed under an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licence
• October 15, 2001 – Mozilla 1.0 Manifesto published
• June 5, 2002 – Mozilla 1.0 released
• August 28, 2002 – Netscape 7 ships without pop-up blocking
• September 23, 2002 - Phoenix 0.1 released
• July, 2003 - Mozilla Foundation is born. $2 million start-up support from AOL’s Netscape division; Mitch Kapor pledges support, joins board
• February 9, 2004 - Firefox 0.8 released to millions of downloads
• February, 2004 - Mozilla Europe is founded to spur Mozilla’s community, mindshare and marketshare in Europe
• July, 2004 - Download.ject vulerability reported in IE and US CERT recommends users use another browser. Traffic to mozilla.org and downloads begin to spike reaching 200,000 per day for the first time.
• August, 2004 - Mozilla Japan is founded on the heels of Mozilla Europe
• September, 2004 - Press reports of IE losing marketshare to Firefox begin. ** http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2004/tc20040917_1883_tc119.htm
• November 9, 2004 - Firefox 1.0 released
• December, 2004 - Mozilla rolls out email client, Thunderbird 1.0
• Dec 16, 2004 - Sreadfirefox community funds 2 page ad in NY Times -- http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-15.html
• March, 2005 - Mozilla China is founded to tap into China’s thriving Firefox community
• August, 2005 - Mozilla Foundation forms wholly-owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation
• October, 2005 - Firefox surpasses 100 million downloads
• November, 2005 - Firefox 1.5 released