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| ''Note: There is a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484416 bug open] to design an interactive timeline of Mozilla's history.''
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| <h1>Mozilla Timeline</h1>
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| <p>In 1998 mozilla.org was created as a place to host the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">open source</a>
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| version of Netscape Communicator. Today this site is the center of a world-wide movement that is creating the <a
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| href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox</a> browser as well as a wide range of other innovative <a
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| <h3>Community Milestones</h3>
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| <li><strong>March 31, 2008</strong> - The Mozilla project celebrates its 10th anniversary</li>
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| <li><strong>February 19, 2008</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/">Mozilla Messaging</a>, the new mail focused subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, begins operations</li>
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| <li><strong>December 28, 2007</strong> - AOL announces that there will be <a href="http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/">no further releases of Netscape Navigator</a> and recommends that Navigator users switch to Firefox</li>
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| <li><strong>December 4, 2006</strong> - The World Economic Forum selects Mozilla as one of the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-12-04.html">Technology Pioneers for 2007</a></li>
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| <li><strong>October 19, 2005</strong> - Firefox surpasses <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-10-19.html">100 million downloads</a> just before its 1st anniversary</li>
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| <li><strong>August 3, 2005</strong> - The <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/">Mozilla Corporation</a> is created as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation</li>
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| <li><strong>July 2, 2005</strong> - The community led SeaMonkey project <a href="http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news#2005-07-02">takes over development</a> of former Mozilla Application Suite code</li>
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| <li><strong>March 4, 2005</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-03-04.html">Mozilla China is founded</a> to tap into China’s thriving Firefox community</li>
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| <li><strong>September 14, 2004</strong> - Mozilla establishes the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html">Bug Bounty program</a> to reward contributors for discovering bugs and helping continually improve Mozilla's products</li>
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| <li><strong>August 18, 2004</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-08-18.html">Mozilla Japan is founded</a> to create a foothold in Asia and foster the growing community in Japan</li>
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| <li><strong>February 17, 2004</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-02-17.html">Mozilla Europe is founded</a> to spur Mozilla’s community, mindshare and marketshare in Europe</li>
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| <li><strong>July 15, 2003</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-foundation.html">The Mozilla Foundation is born</a> with a $2 million start-up support from America Online's Netscape division; Mitch Kapor pledges support and heads up the board of directors</li>
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| <li><strong>April 2, 2003</strong> - A <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.html">new roadmap</a> is posted that details the switch from developing an integrated suite to developing Firefox and Thunderbird as separate applications</li>
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| <li><strong>September 19, 2001</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html">Mozilla relicensing begins</a>, more than 6000 NPL files are relicensed under an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licence</li>
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| <li><strong>April 7, 2000</strong> - First Mozilla Developer Day is hosted at Netscape</li>
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| <li><strong>March 18, 1999</strong> - America Online acquires Netscape Communications Corporation</li>
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| <li><strong>October 26, 1998</strong> - mozilla.org posts product <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-26-Oct-1998.html">roadmap</a> that includes next browser release based on Gecko and a cross platform user interface</li>
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| <li><strong>March 31, 1998</strong> - <a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease591.html?cp=nws04flh1">Netscape Communicator source code</a> is posted on the Internet via mozilla.org</li>
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| <li><strong>February 23, 1998</strong> - The mozilla.org project is <a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease577.html">launched</a> by Netscape</li>
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| <h3>Major Software Releases</h3>
| | * [http://smarthistory.org/ Timeline at Smarthistory.org] |
| | | * [http://www.recovery.gov/ Timeline at Recovery.gov] |
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| | * [http://mozillamemory.org/ Mozilla Digital Memory Bank] |
| <li><strong>June 17, 2008</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-06-17.html">Firefox 3.0</a> is released</li>
| | * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaMemories Mozilla Memories wiki] |
| <li><strong>April 18, 2007</strong> - Thunderbird 2.0 is released as a major update to the free, open source email client</li>
| | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484416 Design an interactive timeline of Mozilla's history] |
| <li><strong>January 18, 2007</strong> - <a href="http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news#2007-01-18">SeaMonkey 1.1</a> is made available</li>
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| <li><strong>October 24, 2006</strong> - Mozilla <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-10-24.html">releases Firefox 2.0</a></li>
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| <li><strong>January 30, 2006</strong> - <a href="http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news#2006-01-30">SeaMonkey 1.0</a> is released</li>
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| <li><strong>January 12, 2006</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/press/mozilla-2006-01-12.html">Thunderbird 1.5</a> is made available</li>
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| <li><strong>November 29, 2005</strong> - Mozilla <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2005-11-29.html">releases Firefox 1.5</a></li>
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| <li><strong>December 7, 2004</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-7.html">Mozilla rolls out Thunderbird 1.0</a> providing users with an alternative, free email client</li>
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| <li><strong>November 9, 2004</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-11-09.html">Mozilla Firefox 1.0 goes live</a>, allowing users to experience the Web in a whole new way</li>
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| <li><strong>June 17, 2004</strong> - Mozilla 1.7 is launched with many improvements to speed and standards support</li>
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| <li><strong>June 30, 2003</strong> - Mozilla 1.4 is released with popup blocking, junkmail filtering, and many improvements</li>
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| <li><strong>September 23, 2002</strong> - Phoenix 0.1 is released, the first official version of a stand-alone browser that will later be renamed to Firefox</li>
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| <li><strong>June 5, 2002</strong> - <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.html">Mozilla 1.0 is released</a> - the browser which is the precursor to today’s wildly popular Firefox Web browser</li>
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| <li><strong>November 14, 2000</strong> - Netscape 6 is released and is the first official Netscape product based on open source code</li>
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| <p><em>For more detailed timeline information, read through the <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/archive.html">MozillaZine News
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