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
• September, 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
• October, 2003 - Mozilla 1.5 released and Foundation begins shipping CDs and raising funds through donations from individual users. Foundation Offices at 1350 Villa St, Mountain View, CA opened. First major website redesign in many years is unveiled.
• February 9, 2004 - Firefox 0.8 released to millions of downloads
• February, 2004 - Mozilla Europe is founded to spur Mozilla’s community, mindshare and market share in Europe
• July, 2004 - Download.ject vulnerability 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 market share 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 - SpreadFirefox 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
• February, 2006 - Firefox download site launched at Yahoo! Japan