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Meet The Co-Creator of Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learning-more-about-it dept.

Jay Langhurst writes "Learn more about the roots of Firefox and about the 19-year-old who co-created the browser in this article. 'To take an internship at Netscape during the summer of 2001, Ross moved with his mother to a rented apartment near Netscape's offices in Mountain View, Calif. She drove him to work each morning.'"

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  1. But... by skinfitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Slashdot still doesn't render correctly in FF...

  2. Re:Hail Hercules! Zero to Hero. by essreenim · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Why do I have the feeling Ross is Bill Gates's long lost son? If this was Greek Mythology: Bill would be Zeus and Ross would be Hercules

    I liken him much more to a young Jobbs or the young guy who developed Napster. Gates was a marketing and busineess genius nott technical one as such..

  3. Re:And not making a brass ra zoo by rikkards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I was reading this I had U2 Live at Blain Castle in the background and they were doing Sunday Bloody Sunday.
    Completely off topic but it was ironical enough to post