Mozilla's past life
- The relationship between Mozilla open source projects, the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox
Everyone must remember the browser wars in the 1990s, Netscape and M $ IE fire,
The final Netscape was defeated in front of the M $'s strong market, and the tragic description of this war is please
See Liu Ruhong's masterpiece "War and Peace - Thinking on the browser development of two or two words". Here is a brief list
Key events:
In May 1993, the geniors of the University of Illinois developed the first browser MOSAIC.
That is, Netscape's predecessor.
In October 1994, NetScape0.9 was released, and only a small amount of HTML was only available at this time.
In July 1995, Netscape1.2 was released, and more than 80% of Internet users used Netscape, Netscpe.
A short-lived brilliance.
On September 22, 1997, IE4.x was released, and the Window97 we usually mentioned was bundled.
Free form is sent to the user, it is this policy that makes IE quickly in the browser market share
Growth, and gradually surpass the faucet boss Netscape.
In January 1998, the Netscape browser provided free download and became a free download.
Open source software,
http://www.mozilla.org is also established.
On August 30, 2002, IE6.0 Service Pack1 is also IE6.1 released by IE6.1, this is Microsoft
The last version of the browser released so far. After several years of market wars, IE
It has a browser market with around 95%.
2003-2004, Mozilla Open Source Project The browser product has emerged in a silent browser.
Market: Phoenix, Thunderbird, Firebird, Firefox. The browser market has set off
A Mozilla Firefox boom, the media also began to speculate on the browser war re-open curtain.
The following is about to say the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox. As seen from the last description, Mozilla is
An open source project, this project is self-browser Netscape, so it is also a browser project, but it
Not only is it limited to a browser, it provides a development platform while developing a Mozilla architecture.
other projects.
Firefox is a browser version that adapts to mass needs from Mozilla source code.
Each version of Firefox is compiled from a Mozilla version. OK, I intuitively, open your
Firefox, Select Menu: Help-> About Firefox, the last few lines of the pop-up window, you can see
Firefox's version of the Mozilla version number, and the final release date of the Gecko engine used:
Mozilla / 5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; EN-US; RV: 1.7.5) Gecko / 20041107 Firefox / 1.0
Here, the version number of the Mozilla's version of Mozilla is 1.7.5, and the GECKO engine release date is 2004, 11, 07
The first 5.0 estimation is the version number of Netscape, because Netscape becomes a Mozilla open source project.
The version number is 4.0. Below is the information about Firefox 0.9 and 0.8:
Mozilla / 5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; EN-US; RV: 1.7) Gecko / 20040803 Firefox / 0.9.3mozilla / 5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; EN-US; RV: 1.6) Gecko / 20040210 Firefox / 0.8
It can be said that Netscape is the past life of Mozilla, Firefox is its life.
