Mozilla Foundation (and Mozilla Corporation)

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2003 to support and lead the open-source Mozilla project, which traces its roots to Netscape and the original Mozilla Application Suite. To build and distribute consumer products and generate revenue, the Foundation created a taxable subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation, in 2005. Together they are best known for the Firefox web browser and related projects; Mozilla’s work focuses on an open, secure, and privacy-respecting internet, developer tools, standards advocacy, and public-interest technology research.

Mozilla produces and maintains Firefox and many related components (updaters, telemetry/ping mechanisms, plugin-container processes, and Firefox ESR code that other projects may rebase). Many community and third-party projects (for example the Tor Browser) are based on Firefox source code or use Mozilla components, but are developed and distributed by other organizations (e.g., the Tor Project). Mozilla is an active ope...