The Mozilla Firefox browser is just the most well-known face of a foundation dedicated to an open and constantly updating Internet. The Mozilla Firefox team is composed of two parts: a small paid staff and a large, worldwide group of volunteers. Together, these two groups have been working together to create an Internet that is free and unrestricted in its ability to enrich people’s lives.In addition to Firefox, Mozilla also offers an e-mail client, Thunderbird. In addition to a Migration Assistant to help people upgrade from both older versions and other e-mail services like Outlook, Thunderbird has a number of other useful features to recommend it. Add people to your address book with one click, and avoid awkward mistakes with the handy attachment reminder.The Mozilla Foundation behind these two technologies was established in 2003, with the Corporation (the actual developing company) established in 2005. The organization is non-profit, and also assists in community efforts by using parks as codenames for its products. The codename for Firefox was Namoroka Park, a site in Madagascar for which Mozilla raised over 12,000. Similarly, Lanikai Beach in Honolulu was a codename for Thunderbird 3.1, and Mozilla is currently raising funds for Hawaiian sea bird conservation.As mentioned above, Mozilla also thrives on volunteer contributions. Users can do testing and quality assurance for Firefox programs, help translate content to different languages, offer support to users with questions about the software, and more. Mozilla’s Drumbeat projects are the newest face of the company, dedicated to keeping the Internet private but free for innovation. Users can organize for whatever cause interests them, whether it’s producing a documentary about the web or standardizing online privacy. Whatever your passion, there’s room for you somewhere at Mozilla.

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