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Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the web-surfing-made-safe-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand Herald has an interview with Ben Goodger, lead engineer for Firefox at the Mozilla foundation. In it he describes how he got started, his reasons for Firefox's existence and what the future may hold for the little browser that could."

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  1. Re:firefox by Jeff+Mahoney · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aww, Mozilla, the touchy feely browser. It hugs my resources!

  2. Process for Takeover by syntap · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Take 90% of browser market share

    2) Integrate into Windows Explorer and tell judges it can't be ripped out

    My best sig is this one.

    1. Re:Process for Takeover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      >It'd be interesting if MS started including Firefox instead of IE

      Yeah, it'd also be interesting if Hell started importing ice.

  3. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by Trillan · · Score: 5, Funny

    An easier wish might be "Slashdot updates its HTML for 2001."

  4. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2. Firefox renders slashdot correctly, since this is the site that promotes it the most.

    No, the IT theme is meant to be like that

  5. That title... by over_exposed · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...just cracks me up. "Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future"

    It just sounds DIRTY... If there was some guys Goodger in my future, I'd certainly try to do something about it...

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  6. Why those suburbs? by CynicalGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's wrong with Ponsonby or Remuera - much classier. Or Manukau, Otahuhu, Papatoetoe - much more authentic. They could offer a porn-optimised version of Firefox codenamed "K-Road".

  7. Re:Only 3 days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, I personally downloaded 300,000 of them myself, just to stuff the ballot box, so to speak... :-) :-)

  8. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by recursiv · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's well known (by me, and for no good reason at that) that they don't use CSS because they think HTML should be enough for any web page. After all, everyone knows that CSS is for LiveJournal lusers to set their scroll bar colors, and could not possibly have any practical application. Real men use tables for layout, and that's that. A real programmer would never prefer CSS's long spelled out english words like border-color in favor of HTML's ULs and TDs. People who use CSS to obtain some result that could be possible with straight HTML are obviously being inefficient. They are probably wasting several bytes on those long, spelled out words.
    The content is the only thing matters is the content anyway. If it's so bad, why don't you make your own front end for the RSS feed? That's the true Open Source way! Plus, what if someone tries to access /. in Netscape Navigator 3.0. It will surely choke on the CSS, and give some unpredictable result.

    Better safe than sorry.

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  9. Re:Firewall Port by DA-MAN · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try blocking port80, that should get most of them. If that doesn't work, try port 21 as well.

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  10. Who should i blame then... by Insipid+Trunculance · · Score: 5, Funny

    i was going to blame /. for the way the web site renders in Firefox.

    Then i read that its not Slashdot ,its actually firefox.

    Then i read that it actually is /. since its HTML is not valid.

    So can i continue blaming /. or shall i play safe and blame MicroSoft.

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