Introduction to the Mozilla Project, Mozilla in the Philippines, Firefox, Firefox OS during MozTour University of Perpetual Help System - Laguna in Binan last Sat 01 Aug 2015.
2. About Me …
• IT Consultant, Technopreneur & Tech News Columnist.
• Mozilla Rep (ReMo) since Jun 2011.
• Mozilla Reps Council member since Oct 2014.
• Educator, Pianist, Photographer,
Hobby Blogger, Gadgeteer & 101% Pinoy
• Dad of Robyn Andi Xeon & Bea Gaia Haswell
• Firefox user SINCE VERSION 1!
5. History of Mozilla
On 23 Feb 1998,
Netscape Communications Corp.
created a project called
Mozilla (Mosaic + Godzilla).
Mozilla was launched 31 Mar 1998.
9. Firefox 101
• Mozilla Firefox is a FREE & Open Source
web browser.
• Initial release: 23 Sep 2002 & was called
Phoenix (then Firebird). Became Firefox on
09 Feb 2004.
• Version 1 released 09 Nov 2004.
• Runs on the Gecko & SpiderMonkey
engines.
• Uses the MPL (Mozilla Public License) 2.0
• As of Dec 2014, there are 500M users of
Firefox worldwide.
35. What Makes Mozilla
Different?
• Mozilla is a global community with shared values.
• We believe that the Internet is
• an integral component of modern life, &
• is therefore a public resource that must be open to
all.
• We believe that Free & Open Source software
developed & promoted through transparent,
community processes is the best way to realize this
vision.