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Firefox Lead Now Working For Google
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."
Google toolbar like... https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei nfo.php?application=firefox&version=0.9&os=Windows &category=Search%20Tools&numpg=10&id=33
Firefox has always (since 0.1) had a Google Toolbar extension--not that find you need it as its built-in search functionality is so good.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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You may be kidding, but Google registered gbrowser.com/org/net for a reason...
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
- Seneca
Actually, it's 20% of their time.
Will Google now become the default search engine on FireFox? So, if you enter a faulty URL, then suddenly, the Google web page appears and presents you with alternative Web links?
Uh, Google already is the default search engine.
I prefer that the development team at FireFox be agnostic. Perhaps, now is the time to switch to Gecko. I hear that it is faster and has a tighter interface with Windows.
Firefox uses Gecko.
Lots of companies pay people to work on Mozilla, including IBM. It doesn't mean they do things only to benefit their employers.
"Will Google now become the default search engine on FireFox? So, if you enter a faulty URL, then suddenly, the Google web page appears and presents you with alternative Web links?"
It already does that to an extent. If you type in a faulty URL, it goes through Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky".
He did pay, and it's now marked as resolved.
Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, has announce that effective from a couple of weeks ago, he has become a Google employee.
no offense to the poster, but: s/has announce/has announced/
Grammar is what sets us apart from the script kiddie.
+5, Truth
"I could easily see some corruption of Firefox coming up, conflicts of interest, subliminal or overt advertising, and whatever else that comes with this kind of association."
At which point being an open source project there will be a fork and a non evil version produced.
Ain't having the source code great!
Err... Gecko is not a browser: it's a part of a browser called a layout engine. Firefox's layout engine? Gecko.
From Wikipedia's layout engine entry:
A web browser's layout engine takes content (HTML, XML, images, etc.) and formatting information (CSS, etc.) and computes a visual representation of the web page, usually for output on either a monitor or a printer.
All web browsers necessarily include some form of layout engine. However, the term "layout engine" only reached popular usage when the Mozilla project designed its web browser's layout engine (Gecko) as a component that was separable from the browser. In other words, the Mozilla layout engine was reusable for web browsers besides Mozilla, and so people began to refer to Gecko as a distinct "layout engine" rather than merely a part of the web browser.
No, because it is not run by Ben Goodger but a non-profit organisation (Mozilla Foundation) for the public good and if they go bad you can fork it (except for the few proprietary bits of Firefox which don't really add to the functionality).
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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Ben Goodger is "just" the lead developer, not to take anything from his contributions to the Firefox project, but the project will go on even when he work for another employer or "turn evil" as some seems to think.
The open source model is not a dictatorship, especially on a large project like mozilla/firefox, not one single person has complete control over everything.
The news of Mr Goodger change of employer is no more shocking than programmers from different countries/companies contribute code to various open source projects. There is no "hidden agenda" or "conflict of interest".
Anyone that has concern about this, become a developer: http://www.mozilla.org/developer/
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Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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Done
Without you knowing it, several of the people employed to work on Firefox 1.0 (and have been working for a long time) recieve paychecks with other companies such as Rracle, Red Had, and IBM.
It's like Google is 'sponsoring' a worker for the Mozilla Foundation, like you used to do to raise money when you were a kid.
Get Firefox!
"Proof in the pudding"
I think the proverb you were looking for is actually:
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to find that guy who "could care less".
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to find that guy who "could care less".
Well, if someone posts somewhere about something, saying they could care less, they are factually and linguistically entirely correct. They could care less - and not post at all.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
A CSS file can be used in Firefox to block Google's ads. Complete instructions are here at the bottom of the page. Google approves if you do this. After all, their toolbar blocks pop-ups. And Firefox has great cookie control. If you don't want to block Google's cookie because you use Gmail or other services that require it, you can turn that 2038 cookie into a session cookie. That way Google gives you a new unique ID with every session, instead of one ID that lasts until 2038.
Type about:config in the url to bring up the config then in the filter field type search. That will list the relevant config settings I think. I had trouble finding any good explaination for all the settings in the config. I wish they had made an little info button or alt hover text text for each setting.
The Chair Corp. comic(*00-12)
Hyatt has been working for Apple since before there was a Firefox, before there was a Firebird, and nearly before there was a Phoenix.
He was hired in July, 2002, right around the time the very first test builds of Phoenix were making the rounds. He was, as I recall, one of the main people behind a project called "mozilla/browser" (or m/b for short), which was kind of a spiritual predecessor to what is now Firefox.
And if you want to see what he's contributed since, take a look around http://tinderbox.mozilla.org. (I'm not linking to all of his chekins out of respect for the server)
If all the world's a stage, anyone who says they want better lighting spends far too much time in a dark theatre.