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Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox web browser with Dave Hyatt.In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart.
On March 24, 2014, Mozilla made the decision to appoint Eich as CEO of Mozilla Corporation. [12] [13] [14] The appointment triggered widespread criticism due to Eich's past political donations [18] – specifically, a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, [19] and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 ...
The name "Firefox" derives from a nickname of the red panda. [37] Mozilla celebrated Red Pandas. [274] Mozilla has placed the Firefox logo files under open-source licenses, [275] [276] but its trademark guidelines do not allow displaying altered [277] or similar logos [278] in contexts where trademark law applies. [279] Logo used for Iceweasel
Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser. While at Netscape, he also created Camino (then known as Chimera) and co-created Firefox (originally called Phoenix) with Blake Ross. He is credited with the implementations of tabbed browsing for Chimera and Firefox.
The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Firefox web browser, by a global community of open-source developers, some of whom are employed by the corporation itself. The corporation also distributes and promotes these ...
In August 2008, Surman became the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, [25] the non-profit organization that supports the open source Mozilla project. The Foundation also runs advocacy programs [26] and offers fellowships [27] to protect the open internet. It is the sole owner of the Mozilla Corporation, which makes the Firefox web ...
Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions. [1]
Winifred Mitchell Baker is the chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and former CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, [1] a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser. She left the CEO role in February 2024. [2]