Timeline

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Note: An effort to revisit these milestones and get community members to help us tell the history of Mozilla is going on during the 15th anniversary. Check out the history blog posts etherpad for more details.


In 1998 mozilla.org was created as a place to host the open source version of Netscape Communicator. Today this site is the center of a world-wide movement that is creating the Firefox browser as well as a wide range of other innovative projects.

Community Milestones

Major Software Releases

  • June 30, 2009 - Firefox 3.5 released
  • June 17, 2008 - Firefox 3.0 is released
  • April 18, 2007 - Thunderbird 2.0 is released as a major update to the free, open source email client
  • January 18, 2007 - SeaMonkey 1.1 is made available
  • October 24, 2006 - Mozilla releases Firefox 2.0
  • January 30, 2006 - SeaMonkey 1.0 is released
  • January 12, 2006 - Thunderbird 1.5 is made available
  • November 29, 2005 - Mozilla releases Firefox 1.5
  • December 7, 2004 - Mozilla rolls out Thunderbird 1.0 providing users with an alternative, free email client
  • November 9, 2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 goes live, allowing users to experience the Web in a whole new way
  • June 17, 2004 - Mozilla 1.7 is launched with many improvements to speed and standards support
  • June 30, 2003 - Mozilla 1.4 is released with popup blocking, junkmail filtering, and many improvements
  • September 23, 2002 - Phoenix 0.1 is released, the first official version of a stand-alone browser that will later be renamed to Firefox
  • June 5, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0 is released - the browser which is the precursor to today’s wildly popular Firefox Web browser
  • November 14, 2000 - Netscape 6 is released and is the first official Netscape product based on open source code


For more detailed timeline information, read through the MozillaZine News Archive.