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Firefox Lead Now Working For Google

Posted by michael on from the speculate-all-you-want-we'll-make-more dept.

zmarties writes "In a very low key announcement on his blog, Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, has announce that effective from a couple of weeks ago, he has become a Google employee. In practice his day to day job won't change that much, in that he will still lead Firefox through its forthcoming releases, but with Google paying his wages, we can be sure that new and interesting overlap between the Mozilla Foundation's browsers and Google's services are sure to develop."

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  1. Google Toolbar for Firefox by hajihill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At the risk of sounding terribly ungeek, I will admit to still using IE. There is only one reason for this:

    Google Toolbar

    I happen to like it a lot. I'm lazy, it's ultra convenient. Now if Firefox had a version of the Google toolbar, which up to now it does not, I would switch in a hot minute.

    Hopefully, this pairing promises this among other great things.

    --
    Of blankness, I know nothing.
  2. Re:Hummm... by odaen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Frankly, google probabaly don't care. Why take the time and effort to make a site standard compliant when in the end it would probabaly use more bandwidth for google, and probabaly wouldn't work the same in every browser under the sun.

    Granted standards compliance is one way to make the internet more uniform, but saying a site NEEDS standard compliance is idiotic. What makes W3C standards anyway? When a site doesn't start to work with your favourite browsers, thats when you complain but if it ain't broke, why fix it?

  3. Google isnt god. by grazzy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can we please try and stop idolising google?

    They have stepped far far far away from their initial ideals and ideas. They have become what every other company on the wall street already is.

    Greedy. False. Evil.

    From https://www.google.com/adsense/policies:

    #
    No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages. This includes error, login, registration, "thank you" or welcome pages.
    # No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed on any domain parking websites, pop-ups, pop-unders, or in any email.
    # No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevan

    Okey, these are the rules. Lets check what google does.
    http://muzikworld.net/

    Here we have google CUSTOMISED ads (10million pages + google specialists helping with CTR etc) to help these domainselling scumbags earn more money on their dirty trade.

    Well. FUCK that.

    This is just one example off many.