The
Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as
Mozilla, marketed as the
Mozilla Suite) was a
cross-platform integrated
Internet suite. Its development was initiated by
Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by
AOL. It was based on the source code of
Netscape Communicator. The development was spearheaded by the
Mozilla Organization from 1998 to 2003, and by the
Mozilla Foundation from 2003 to 2006. It has been superseded by
SeaMonkey Internet suite (SeaMonkey was the original code name for the project), a community-driven Internet suite that is based on the same source code and continued to be developed with newer Mozilla codebase.
The Mozilla Suite was composed of several main programs:
Navigator (a
Web browser),
Communicator (
Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups), a Web page developer (
Mozilla Composer), an
IRC client (
ChatZilla) and an electronic address book. Also included were tools to synchronise the application with
Palm Pilot devices, and several extensions for advanced Web development including the
DOM Inspector and
Venkman (a JavaScript
debugger).
Versions 6 and 7 of the
Netscape suite were based on the Mozilla Suite. The last official version is 1.7.13, as Mozilla Foundation is now focusing on the development of
Firefox and
Thunderbird. The Mozilla Suite is available under the terms of the Mozilla project's
tri-license, as
free and open source software.