Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

5 of 457 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Google Toolbar for Firefox by anz2007 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  2. Re:I was just thinking... by FrYGuY101 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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
  3. Re:Corruption of FireFox Development? by sepluv · · Score: 4, Informative
    Please...more conspiracy theorys...
    I doubt that Time-Warner would allows its employees, on company time
    Well, that is why TW has a bad name and Google is kown as an ethical company. Google actually allow their employees a proportion of their work time to do their own projects. Anyway, the non-profit for-the-public-good MF is in charge of Firefox and it can always be forked if they go bad (except for the negligble proprietary components of Firefox).
    So, if you enter a faulty URL, then suddenly, the Google web page appears and presents you with alternative Web links?
    ATM if you enter a word or phrase that doesn't look like a URI it searches Google and takes you to the page at the top of the Google results. Personally I think it should ask you the first time whether you want it to do this (just in case it scares people), but, except that, this seems sensible.
    Perhaps, now is the time to switch to Gecko.
    Gecko is the rendering engine (backend) used by Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Netscape, Galleon, &c, so, if you use any of those browsers, you already use Gecko.
    --
    Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
    [This post is in the public domain (copyright-free) unless otherwise stated]
  4. Re:proof in the pudding by Trogre · · Score: 4, Informative

    "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
  5. About the config by PromANJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)