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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. Maybe he was just bitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    About all the press coverage Blake Ross has been getting for Firefox... ABC, Wired, the Playgirl spread, etc.

  2. I was just thinking... by Cyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... that Firefox was due for another name change.

    (yes, I know it's just the lead - laugh.)

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    1. Re:I was just thinking... by Coneasfast · · Score: 4, Funny

      maybe he can combine the names, and just call it GooFox, can you imagine how cool that would be?

      "do you use IE?"
      "no, i use goofox!"

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    2. Re:I was just thinking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least you didn't pick "FireGoo." I think I got a case of that after I hooked up with this one chick at a bar... ;)

  3. Uh-oh... bad news for Google... by winkydink · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look what happened to Transmeta after they "sponsored" Linus.

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  4. So THAT's why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Firefox has google search built-in. Someone needed a job!

  5. The ever puzzling Google guys by Anonymous+Cowherd+X · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, ...

    Good-bad-gers? Fire-bad-foxes? I bet Google hired him just so they can use this as a puzzle on their Ph.D. job applicants!

  6. Oops by bdesham · · Score: 4, Funny
    in a very low key announcement
    Not anymore :-)
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  7. Google vs Hyatt by skyman8081 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess Dave Hyatt never did pay the $50 to Ben. So he had to leave for Google.

    Mozilla Bug #52094 "Hyatt should give ben $50"
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    1. Re:Google vs Hyatt by Agret · · Score: 2, Funny

      ------- Additional Comment #89 From Ben Goodger 2004-11-17 01:15 PST [reply] -------

      Wow.

      I got hyatt drunk and he gave me fifty bucks, in cash.

      After more than four years, I think I can consider this bug fixed.

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  8. Let them answer themself! by thijsa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, according to google:
    google "evil corporation": 2,010 hits
    google "good corporation": 207 hits

    They have the odds against! They're doing even worse than M$:
    microsoft evil corporation: 840 hits
    microsoft good corporation: 297 hits

  9. Re:So google is paying him to work on firefox? by thijsa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well let's hope that Microsoft will first sponsor someone to work on internet explorer...

  10. Right On About Gecko! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    According to the dicussion at MozillaZine, Gecko is faster than FireFox even though they share the same code base. Gecko is more tightly intergrated into the Windows interface.

    Mod parent up!

  11. Re:Big deal... by PornMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but just think of how hard it will be to find a name that's not taken already! ;)

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  12. Re:What a great way to influence a project by rbarreira · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then he can say... I sold my soul to google and all I got was a lousy GMail account :)

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  13. Not good by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Funny

    if that happens Bush can declare a war on Google (sponsored by MS of-course,) since (as I am sure, you are all aware of,) napalm is a weapon of mass destruction.... well, it can be.

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  14. Re:This is bad, youre worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wrong. I'm so hip that I wear Angelina Jolie's pubes around my neck like I'm the Dalai Llama.

  15. Too bad... by This+Is+Ridiculous · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was hoping Slashdot would snatch him up so we could get that sidebar-stretches-across-the-page bug nailed to the wall.

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