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Firefox Send 2019 - 2020
Firefox Send was an end-to-end encrypted file sharing service. It was
suspended in July 2020 due to abuse, and fully shut down in September 2020.
Firefox Notes 2019 - 2020
Firefox Notes allowed users to write and sync encrypted notes using a Firefox
extension or an Android app. It will be decomissioned in November 2020, and
notes will be available only for export.
X-Ray Goggles 2014 - 2019
X-Ray Goggles was a browser extension that allowed users to easily view and edit the source code of any webpage, then share their modifications with other. It was decomissioned in December 2019.
Firefox Hello 2014 - 2016
Firefox Hello was a video chat service built into Firefox versions 34 - 49. It
allowed users to initiate video calls with one another by simply sharing a
link, no account required. While Firefox Hello had good integration with
Firefox, it could be used from any browser that supported WebRTC.
Firefox OS 2013 - 2016
Firefox OS was an open-source operating system for smartphones, tablets, and
smart TVs, based on Gecko (Firefox’s rendering engine), and the Linux Kernel.
The sale of Firefox OS smartphones ended in 2015, and development was
discontinued in 2016.
Appmaker was a tool to build mobile apps without code. Instead, it used visual blocks and signals. Appmaker, along with Popcorn Maker, was shut down in September 2015 to focus on Webmaker.
Thimble was an educational, web-based code editor that allowed users to easily create and publish websites. Thimble was shut down by December 2019, and users were given the chance to migrate their projects to Glitch, a similar tool for building web apps.
Shumway 2012 - 2016
Shumway was an HTML5 and Javascript based SWF media player. It rendered Flash
content by using an ActionScript interpreter written in Javascript. Declining
usage of Flash on the web was likely to have contributed to the
discontinuation of this project.
Ubiquity 2011 - 2012
Ubiquity was an experiment to add a natural-language-based command line to
Firefox that helped users get tasks on the web done faster. Ubiquity commands
were small pieces of code that any website could provide, which users could
choose to subscribe to when available.
Mozilla Persona 2011 - 2016
Mozilla Persona was a cross-browser, decentralized, single sign-in web
authentication system. The project was shut down in 2016 due to low adoption.
Deuxdrop/Raindrop 2009 - 2011
Deuxdrop was a distributed, secure messaging system, intended for one-to-one and group messaging. Deuxdrop was a continuation of Raindrop, a previous project with similar goals.
Mozilla Prism2007 - 2011
Mozilla Prism allowed users to run web apps directly on their desktop, outside
of their web browser. It used Firefox under the hood, and added additional
capabilities such as offline data storage and hardware accelerated graphics.
Prism was available as both a standalone application and as a Firefox
extension.
Mozilla Sunbird 2005 - 2010
Mozilla Sunbird was a standalone, cross-platform calendar application. Development was discontinued in 2010 to focus on development of Lightning, which shared the same codebase, but was built into Mozilla Thunderbird.
Minimo 2004 - 2007
Minimo was a version of Mozilla optimized for small devices, including cellphones and PDAs, that had limited resources. It was available for platforms including Windows Mobile, Windows CE, and GPE. It was later superseded by Firefox Mobile (code-named Fennec).
Camino 2002 - 2013
Camino was a web browser that was built for and integrated heavily with Mac OS
X, based on Firefox’s Gecko engine. Camino had a native interface, as opposed
to the XUL UI framework used by Firefox. The end of development was announced
in 2013.
Venkman 2001 - 2011
Venkman was a Javascript debugger for Firefox. Development had slowed down by 2011, and it was soon superseded by Firebug. A walkthrough of Venkman shows off many of its features.
Vixen was supposed to be a visual IDE for Mozilla’s XUL UI. Its features would
include a visual form designer that would allow developers to design windows
and dialogs without writing code, similar to Delphi or Visual Basic. It seems
like the project never got very far.
Grendel 1999 - ????
Grendel was a mail and news client written in Java, and built on Sun’s JavaMail API. It was an open-sourced portion of the code from Netscape Navigator’s Java rewrite, code-named Xena.
ElectricalFire 1999 - ????
ElectricalFire was an open-source, just-in-time Java virtual machine. It was
open-sourced by Netscape in 1999 after it was no longer being developed as a
commercial product.
Mariner 1998 - 1998
Mariner aimed to improve the performance and stability of Netscape
Communicator. It was open-sourced in March of 1998, but was abandoned in
October that year, as Netscape decided to work on its newer NGLayout (now
known as Gecko) engine.
MXR (Mozilla Cross Reference) ???? - ????
MXR was Mozilla’s fork of LXR, a source code indexer that aimed to improve code comprehension. Eventually Mozilla began working on a replacement tool with better static analysis and UI. This replacement is called DXR, and once it reached maturity, Mozilla shut down their MXR instance.