Trusty old Firefox
In January 1998, the Netscape Communications Corporation (NSCP) announced plans to release the source code for its Netscape Communicator software on the internet. The company released the source code for the first developer version of Netscape Communicator 5.0 in the first quarter of 1998. This aggressive move allowed Netscape to harness the creative power of thousands of internet programmers by incorporating enhancements for future versions of Netscape software.
This announcement led to the creation of the Mozilla Project.
Phoenix 0.1 was released in September 2002. That was the first version of a browser that was later called Firebird and then Firefox. Firefox 1.0 was launched in 2004 and became a huge success.
In November 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1, the first software release of the Fedora Project. GNOME was Fedora Linux’s default desktop. Mozilla Suite was the web browser of choice at the time. Mozilla had not yet started the Firefox...