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13 unusual facts about Mozilla Foundation


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Mozilla Foundation's URL shortener uses it with the "mzl.la" domain hack.

Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.

History of Mozilla Thunderbird

On July 6, 2012, the Mozilla Foundation announced that while they will no longer be focused on innovations for Thunderbird, they would provide support until the second half of 2013.

On July 26, 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced that Thunderbird would be developed by an independent organization, because the Mozilla Corporation (the for profit portion of Mozilla) is focusing on Mozilla Firefox development.

On September 17, 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced the funding of a new internet communications initiative with Dr. David Ascher of ActiveState.

Middleton Tract, California

Other notable personages who owned cabins in the Middleton Tract include famed Palo Alto Architect Birge Clark, Round Table Pizza founder Bill Larson, Stanford University Professor of Education Avlarez, and one of the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation's founders Asa Dotzler.

Mozilla Calendar Project

The Mozilla Calendar project was announced by the Mozilla Organization (now the Mozilla Foundation) in October 2001.

Mozilla Europe

It was founded on 17 February 2004 by contributors to Mozilla and other free software projects, and was an independent affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation with headquarters in Paris, France.

OCSP stapling

The OpenSSL project included support in their 0.9.8g release with the assistance of a grant from the Mozilla Foundation.

Open Source for America

It consists of various open source foundations, and companies, including GNOME, Mozilla, and Canonical.

Singapore GNU Group

The Singapore GNU Group's organization models itself after the Mozilla Foundation.

Tristan Nitot

Since January 2004 he has been the founder and chairman of Mozilla Europe, the international affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation, a post he first occupied on a pro bono basis.

Web API

The Mozilla Foundation created their WebAPI specification which is designed to help replace native mobile applications with HTML5 applications.


Mozilla Japan

The organization is run by its board of directors, which is made up of Hideo Aiso of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hideyuki Tokuda of Keio University, Nobuo Kita, Hideki Sunahara of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Satoko Takita (chair) and Joichi Ito of the Mozilla Foundation.