Short answer: it's a web browser related to Netscape
Long answer: after Netscape 4.75 came out, Netscape (which by then was owned by AOL) made the decision to publish the full source code to Netscape and make its future development ("Netscape 5") a community effort. This effort was codenamed Mozilla after the green Netscape lizard mascot (actually, Mozilla was an earlier nickname of Netscape from the days when the main competitor to Netscape was NCSA Mosaic, and IE was but a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye. But I digress...)
Travel about five years down the line, and you get to where we are now. Netscape 6 and 7 were based on the Mozilla code (taking the open source Mozilla code and adding proprietary stuff). Mozilla itself is a standards-compliant, state-of-the-art browser which makes IE look extremely poor by comparison.
The downside is that Moz or Netscape are unlikely to oust Internet Explorer from its dominant position, simply because IE comes with Windows as standard, and you need to install Moz yourself.
I've been using it for a few (three?) years now, and have no complaints. Worth trying out, in my opinion.
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Date: 2003-09-25 10:49 am (UTC)Short answer: it's a web browser related to Netscape
Long answer: after Netscape 4.75 came out, Netscape (which by then was owned by AOL) made the decision to publish the full source code to Netscape and make its future development ("Netscape 5") a community effort. This effort was codenamed Mozilla after the green Netscape lizard mascot (actually, Mozilla was an earlier nickname of Netscape from the days when the main competitor to Netscape was NCSA Mosaic, and IE was but a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye. But I digress...)
Travel about five years down the line, and you get to where we are now. Netscape 6 and 7 were based on the Mozilla code (taking the open source Mozilla code and adding proprietary stuff). Mozilla itself is a standards-compliant, state-of-the-art browser which makes IE look extremely poor by comparison.
The downside is that Moz or Netscape are unlikely to oust Internet Explorer from its dominant position, simply because IE comes with Windows as standard, and you need to install Moz yourself.
I've been using it for a few (three?) years now, and have no complaints. Worth trying out, in my opinion.