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Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future

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. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!

    1. Re:FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux Kernel, was visiting his friend Andrew Tridgell, the creator of the Samba suite. They were walking through the Zoo in Canberra when, without warning, a huge flock of vampire attack penguins dove out of the sky and tried to carry Linus away. Fortunately, Andrew had an umbrella. Still, one of the birds was able to nip Linus' hand with its fanged beak. Rumor has it that on moonlit nights Linus still runs out into the darkness and jumps, stark naked, into icy water. Of course, he's Finnish and may always have done this. In any case, this is why the Penguin is the Linux Mascot.
  2. I just swithced a coworker today! by stuffedmonkey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    She had 5-6 different spywares running at the same time on her windows xp box!

  3. fp mother bitchez!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. #irc.t8olltalk.3om by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by EzInKy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, the IT theme is meant to be like that

    It's the table layout, not the theme. They "bleed" into each other on Mozilla, but Konq handles it just fine.

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  6. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by pyrrhonist · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    We're hoping to move to XHTML in the future (sometime within the next year, for sure, I hope) but like everything else it goes on our priority list based on resource-cost and benefit. There are bugs that need to be squashed, meaningful features to be added, and performance improvements we need to put into place that come first.

    Like changing the IT colors to something that doesn't cause blindness? (please oh please oh please oh please...)

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  7. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by Tim+C · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh - it still amuses me when I see people make that sort of request about the IT section colour scheme.

    Go take a look at games, think about how much worse it is and how much longer it's existed, then think about how likely it is that any of the /. editors actually cares enough to do anything in response to the complaints.

    Oh and Jamie, you're lying - slash does not emit valid HTML 3.2. Fine by me, just don't treat us like idiots please; some of us do this for a living.

  8. mod insightful by LnxAddct · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wow so many nonexistant attributes all over the place.

  9. How'd Jamie's post get to +5, anyway? by Trillan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Either 5 people modded it up without any verification in the ten minutes it took people to post proof that it was wrong, or some other factor is at work!

    1. Re:How'd Jamie's post get to +5, anyway? by Trillan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Heh. The conspiracy theory is more entertaining, but I'm sure you're right. :)

    2. Re:How'd Jamie's post get to +5, anyway? by commodoresloat · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      It's not a conspiracy theory. Slashdot editors have unlimited mod points.

  10. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by pyrrhonist · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Go take a look at games, think about how much worse it is and how much longer it's existed, then think about how likely it is that any of the /. editors actually cares enough to do anything in response to the complaints.

    Yes, Games is a little annoying too. The difference, however, is that the beige-on-white is hard to read, and painful. Games just doesn't affect me that way, because the darker purple provides some contrast.

    It would be nice if there was a option in the preferences somewhere that would "force all pages to be Slashdot green". That way, we wouldn't have to keep removing "it" from the URLs of stories, or changing it to something more imaginative.

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  11. Note: Reason for difference. by Trillan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The reason for the difference between my scan (180) and other others here (189) is that I took a copy of the current page, added the meta content line (which needs to be added if you're scanning from a local hard drive instead of over http) and uploaded the site to the w3c validator.

    If anyone is interested in reproducing this, you need to add this element to the head:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

    (The charset was determined by right-clicking the web page (as rendered over http) and checking the properties.)

  12. Re:Oh? Then why do you block wc3 validator? by el-spectre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nah, a good troll is subtle and informed. This was just random ranting w/o knowing what the fuck you are talking about, AC.

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  13. Re:My Wishlist for FireFox by pyrrhonist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    As many have said, just load all of your pages without the leading [section] on [section].slashdot.org, and you'll get Slashdot green. Its not that hard. When you look at t page, go to the location bar, remove the section and reload.

    Your condescending attitude notwithstanding, if you'd actually read my post, you'd know I already know how to do that.

    I know, "it's not that hard", but the point is that I shouldn't have to do that in order to read an article without hurting my eyes. I am suggesting that maybe it should be changed so that Slashdot always uses a plain default if the user wants it.

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  14. Re:Oh? Then why do you block wc3 validator? by SenseiLeNoir · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    hey, I said we emitted HTML 3.2... I never said it was valid :)

    Microsoft incorporates security in its products, its just not valid security!

    COme on guys! I am sure you can do better than that feeble excuse! ;)

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