firefox, a web browser

introduction

 

what it is

A web browser. Descendant of Netscape Navigator. Descendant of Mozilla.

Home is http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/.

Security announcements are here: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/.

what it isn't

where it is

history

The original name for the Netscape Navigator browser, which is supposedly a hybrid of the words "Mosaic" and "Godzilla." Web lore has it that Mozilla means "the beast (Godzilla) that ate Mozaic (the browser)." A green lizard image representing Mozilla was used by Netscape Corp. as their mascot, and a red version has become the icon of the mozilla browser.