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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. Basement by Diabolical · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So refreshing to see he didn't live in his mothers basement....

  2. Re:Ain't that sweet... by DrDatabase · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Depressingly familiar ..."

    People who spent most of their live behind a PC miss out on the social skills their peers develop when they're out hanging with friends and such.

    It's a fact of life.. but he doesn't look like a real nerd. So as long as he doesn't think like a computer everything is not lost :P