Mozilla was founded on February 28, 1998, in order to facilitate open-source development of Netscape Communicator's source code. The name Mozilla comes from the work-in-progress name for Netscape Browser, which was a combination of words Mosaic and Godzilla.[1] Around June 5th, 2002, version 1.0 of their application suite, then simply named Mozilla, was released for Linux (including Red Hat .rpm packages), HP-UX, Tru64 Unix, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS (both OS X and Classic Mac OS), OS/2, Solaris, OpenVMS, BeOS, and FreeBSD. This logo would continue to be used after the introduction of the next logo, in the splash screen for the Mozilla application suite until it's discontinuation in 2005
2003–2017[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
FF Meta Bold
Launched:
November 2003
This new logo first appeared on Mozilla's website in November 2003.
Seven months since setting out to refresh the brand experience, Mozilla unveiled a new logo on January 18, 2017. The new logo is stylized as moz://a.
Click to see more about the new identity.
1 Project maintained by the community with coordination of Zarro Boogs Corporation, with support from Mozilla. 2 Project maintained by the community with coordination of SeaMonkey Council, with support from Mozilla. 3 Project maintained by the community with coordination of Thunderbird Council, with support from Mozilla.
