3 2005 ; 11 years ago 2005 08 03 headquarters mountain view california us key people mitchell baker executive chairwoman chris beard ceo products firefox mozilla thunderbird more ... revenue 329.5 million 2014 1 net income 9.24 million 2011 1 number of employees 1000 2 parent mozilla foundation website www.mozilla.org entrance to the mountain view office which is home to both the mozilla foundation and the mozilla corporation the mozilla corporation abbreviated moco is a wholly owned subsidiary of the mozilla foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of internet related applications such as the firefox and seamonkey web browsers and the mozilla thunderbird email client by a global community of open source developers some of whom are employed by the corporation itself . the corporation also distributes and promotes these products . unlike the non profit mozilla foundation and the mozilla open source project founded by the now defunct netscape corporation the mozilla corporation is a taxable entity . the mozilla corporation reinvests all of its profits back into the mozilla projects . 3 the mozilla corporation s stated aim is to work towards the mozilla foundation s public benefit to promote choice and innovation on the internet . 4 a mozillazine article explained the mozilla foundation will ultimately control the activities of the mozilla corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary . any profits made by the mozilla corporation will be invested back into the mozilla project . there will be no shareholders no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid . the mozilla corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary . the mozilla foundation will continue to own the mozilla trademarks and other intellectual property and will license them to the mozilla corporation . the foundation will also continue to govern the source code repository and control who is allowed to check in . 5 contents 1 establishment 2 notable events 3 affiliations 3.1 google 3.2 yahoo 3.3 microsoft 3.4 irs audit 4 people 4.1 board of directors 4.2 management team 4.3 notable current employees 4.4 notable past employees 5 see also 6 references 7 external links establishment edit the mozilla corporation was established on august 3 2005 to handle the revenue related operations of the mozilla foundation . as a non profit the mozilla foundation is limited in terms of the types and amounts of revenue . the mozilla corporation as a taxable organization essentially a commercial operation does not have to comply with such strict rules . upon its creation the mozilla corporation took over several areas from the mozilla foundation including coordination and integration of the development of firefox and thunderbird by the global free software community and the management of relationships with businesses . with the creation of the mozilla corporation the rest of the mozilla foundation narrowed its focus to concentrate on the mozilla project s governance and policy issues . in november 2005 with the release of mozilla firefox 1.5 the mozilla corporation s website at mozilla.com was unveiled as the new home of the firefox and thunderbird products online . in 2006 the mozilla corporation generated 66.8 million in revenue and 19.8 million in expenses with 85 % of that revenue coming from google for assigning google as the browser s default search engine and for click throughs on ads placed on the ensuing search results pages . 6 7 notable events edit in march 2006 jason calacanis reported a rumor on his blog that mozilla corporation gained 72m during the previous year mainly thanks to the google search box in the firefox browser . 8 the rumor was later addressed by christopher blizzard then a member of the board who wrote on his blog that it s not correct though not off by an order of magnitude . 9 two years later techcrunch wrote in return for setting google as the default search engine on firefox google pays mozilla a substantial sum in 2006 the total amounted to around 57 million or 85 % of the company s total revenue . the deal was originally going to expire in 2006 but was later extended to 2008 and will now run through 2011 . 10 the deal was extended again another 3 years until november 2014 . in this latest deal mozilla will get another 900 million 300 million annually from google nearly 3 times the previous amount . 11 in august 2006 microsoft posted a letter on mozilla newsgroups 12 and offered to open up a new open source facility at its headquarters in redmond wash . to mozilla software engineers . mozilla responded by accepting the offer . 13 in march 2014 mozilla came under some criticism after it appointed brendan eich as its new chief executive officer ceo . in 2008 eich had made a 1 000 contribution in support of california proposition 8 14 a ballot initiative that barred legal recognition of same sex marriages in california . 15 three of six mozilla board members reportedly resigned over the choice of ceo 16 though mozilla said the resigning board members had a variety of reasons 17 and reasserted its continued commitment to lgbt equality 18 19 including same sex marriage . 20 on april 1 the online dating site okcupid started displaying visitors using mozilla firefox a message urging them to switch to a different web browser pointing out that 8 % of the matches made on okcupid are between same sex couples . 21 on april 3 mozilla announced that eich had decided to step down as ceo and also leave the board of mozilla foundation . 22 23 this in turn prompted criticism from some commentators who criticized the pressure that led eich to resign . 24 25 26 for example conor friedersdorf argued in the atlantic that the general practice of punishing people in business for bygone political donations is most likely to entrench powerful interests and weaken the ability of the powerless to challenge the status quo . 27 in april 2014 chris beard the former chief marketing officer of mozilla was appointed interim ceo . beard was named ceo in july 28 of the same year . 28 affiliations edit this section s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out of date information . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . april 2012 google edit the mozilla corporation s relationship with google has been noted in the popular press 29 30 especially with regard to their paid referral agreement . mozilla s original deal with google to have google search as the default web search engine in the browser expired in 2011 but a new deal was struck where google agreed to pay mozilla just under a billion dollars over three years in exchange for keeping google as its default search engine . the price was driven up due to aggressive bidding from microsoft s bing and yahoo s presence in the auction as well . despite the deal mozilla firefox maintains relationships with bing yahoo yandex baidu amazon.com and ebay . 31 combined income of mozilla foundation and mozilla corporation year total proportion derived from google reference 2005 52.9 million 95 % 32 33 2006 66.9 million 90 % 32 34 2007 81 million 88 % 35 36 2008 78.6 million 91 % 37 2009 86 % citation needed 2010 123 million 84 % 31 38 2011 163 .5 million 85 % 38 the release of the anti phishing protection in firefox 2 in particular raised considerable controversy 39 anti phishing protection enabled by default is based on a list updated twice hourly from google s servers . 40 the user can not change the data provider within the gui 41 and is not informed who the default data provider is . the browser also sends google s cookie with each update request . 42 some who internet privacy advocacy groups have expressed concerns surrounding google s possible uses for this data especially since firefox s privacy policy states that google may share non personally identifying information gathered through safe browsing with third parties including business partners . 43 following google ceo eric schmidt s comments in december 2009 regarding privacy during a cnbc show 44 asa dotzler mozilla s director of community development suggested that users use the bing search engine instead of google search . 45 google also promoted firefox through youtube until the release of google chrome . in august 2009 mozilla security assisted google by pointing out a security flaw in google s chrome browser . 46 yahoo edit in november 2014 mozilla signed a five year partnership with yahoo making yahoo search the default search engine for firefox browsers in the us . 47 microsoft edit microsoft s head of australian operations steve vamos stated in late 2004 that he did not see firefox as a threat and that there was not significant demand for the feature set of firefox among microsoft s users . 48 microsoft chairman bill gates has used firefox but has commented that it s just another browser and ie microsoft s internet explorer is better . 49 a microsoft sec filing on june 30 2005 acknowledged that competitors such as mozilla offer software that competes with the internet explorer web browsing capabilities of our windows operating system products . 50 the release of internet explorer 7 was fast tracked and included functionality that was previously available in firefox and other browsers such as tabbed browsing and rss feeds . 51 despite the cold reception from microsoft s top management the internet explorer development team maintains a relationship with mozilla . they meet regularly to discuss web standards such as extended validation certificates . 52 in 2005 mozilla agreed to allow microsoft to use its web feed logo in the interest of common graphical representation of the web feeds feature . 53 in august 2006 microsoft offered to help mozilla integrate firefox with the then forthcoming windows vista 54 an offer mozilla accepted . 55 in october 2006 as congratulations for a successful ship of firefox 2 the internet explorer 7 development team sent a cake to mozilla . 56 57 as a nod to the browser wars some jokingly suggested that mozilla send a cake back along with the recipe in reference to the open source software movement . 58 the ie development team sent another cake on june 17 2008 upon the successful release of firefox 3 59 again on march 22 2011 for firefox 4 60 and yet again for the firefox 5 release . 61 in november 2007 jeff jones a security strategy director in microsoft s trustworthy computing group criticized firefox claiming that internet explorer experienced fewer vulnerabilities and fewer higher severity vulnerabilities than firefox in typical enterprise scenarios . 62 mozilla developer mike shaver discounted the study citing microsoft s bundling of security fixes and the study s focus on fixes rather than vulnerabilities as crucial flaws . 63 in february 2009 microsoft released service pack 1 for version 3.5 of the . net framework . this update also installed microsoft . net framework assistant add on enabling clickonce support . 64 the update received media attention after users discovered that the add on could not be uninstalled through the add ons interface . 65 66 several hours after the website annoyances.org posted an article regarding this update microsoft employee brad abrams posted in his blog microsoft s explanation for why the add on was installed and also included detailed instructions on how to remove it . 67 however the only way to get rid of this extension was to modify manually the windows registry which could cause windows systems to fail to boot up if not done correctly . 65 on october 16 2009 mozilla blocked all versions