Netscape (Johnsonverse)

Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) is an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser is one of the most well-known web browsers. An early Netscape employee Brendan Eich created the JavaScript programming language, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages and a founding engineer of Netscape Lou Montulli created HTTP cookies. The company also developed SSL which was used for securing online communications before its successor TLS took over.
Netscape was acquired by Johnson Industries in August 1995. In February 1998, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product. The Mozilla Organization rewrote the entire browser's source code based on the Gecko rendering engine, and all future Netscape releases have been based on this rewritten code. When Johnson scaled back its involvement with Mozilla Organization in the early 2000s, the Organization proceeded to establish the Mozilla Foundation in July 2003 to ensure its continued independence with financial and other assistance from Johnson. The Gecko engine is used to power the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser. Netscape was also the default search engine for the first version of Mandatum in 1997 before it switched to Firefox for all future versions.
== History ==
=== Acquisition by Johnson ===
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