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What is mozilla?

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let me try to answer this

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Mozilla is... a question of people?

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Mozilla is a global project

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and it's a non-profit organization

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It is just an incredible movement of

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really really passionate people

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I think it attracts people who are interested in helping others

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and who want to work with a group and do something important

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ehehe crazy people!

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Mozilla is of course best known for

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our product Firefox

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The Firefox project was born in a time when

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the web became stagnant and

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the only browser out there was Internet Explorer

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It's one thing to talk about competition sort of like an idealized economic good

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it's another thing to say, you know, your browser made my life so much better,

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my computer was so slow, I was getting popups and I couldn't use it,

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I thought the internet was terrible and now it's all better,

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this is what happened back in 2004 when we launched Firefox.

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There's a lot of innovation we drove in the browser, which you find today across all browsers.

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a lot of the good things we've built have come from people who don't happen to work on the project full time

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And that's a really important thing.

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Innovation doesn't happen unless people are tinkering

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and tinkering does not happen unless they have access to the code.

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You end up with a much richer ecosystem, when you have more people trying out their ideas

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and seeing what works

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sometimes that translates back at us and we say:

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well that's a good idea

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we would like to use it

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we're gonna ship it to everybody

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Mozilla is a very important experiment

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because we operate like a for-profit company

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we have a high quality product, we have customers and, instead of shareholders, who want

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profits we have a mission to keep the web open, to provide choice.

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That's why we are non-profit. It's so, we can make our product decisions based on user experience and

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empowering people and building a product that cares that you're a citizen and a human being,

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and not based on that you own a wallet.

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Mozilla is a global project

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There are many ways you can get involved

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You can contribute code

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You can translate and localize content

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You can innovate in the browser and beyond

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You can donate and support our cause

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We are for an independent and open Internet.

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If Mozilla or other organizations where not fighting for this

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the Web would become the same as the other large mechanisms of mass communication

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That is, dominated by a few

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The definition of open source implies

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working together without discrimination

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The Web isn't just something that you consume,

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it's something that you can actually affect yourself.

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you know we had this idea about how the world should work and

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we tend to embody that into something individual people can touch and be part of

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And that's different.

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We're not just a different kind of browser.

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We're building a better web

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Anyone can help

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Learn how: