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Amailer

Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:03 pm


Firefox main developer now with google

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starfoxtjAs some of you may have heard, approximately a week ago Firefox's Lead Programmer was employed by Google. Because of this, version 1.1 is being 

Very interesting.

Lets hope nothing bad results from this.


So, what you guys think?
Firefox is going to start going down? New google browser or something?


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person

Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:10 pm



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google browser?? i dont think so....although the impact on FF....Mmmmm..... :think:


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wtd

Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:13 pm



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They were planning on slowing development somewhat anyway, which makes sense.  Now that they're at 1.0 they don't want to make a lot of changes in a short period of time.  Give Firefox 1.0 a chance to get established and make incremental updates.  2.0 should be out by the end of the year.


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Amailer

Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:18 pm



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Well there are some bugs that need to be fixed in 1.1 but I guess a little break wouln't do us any harm  :lol: 

It would be cool if they could do something with google though- I mean some proved technology or something that uses google to improve firefox somehow.

Btw, he frequently (i guess) posts web logs on updates and stuff about him- you can check at out http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ *just noticed i got it off a site that is already linked here.. oh well XD*


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Tony

Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:16 am



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well firefox being open sourced is not very profitable, but it has given its developers a very nice recognition in the field and resulted in a very nice (as I imagine) job at google. Besides - I've read that google is giving those guys pleanty of time off to continue working on FF


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Amailer

Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:33 am



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yeah...



Ok so I was putting the facts together..... Is this just a coincidence or is Google up to something? 

1) Google hires Ben Goodger, the lead developer of the FireFox browser.

2) Google registers www.gbrowser.com
(Check the whois info for the domain! :shock: )

Can we expect a new browser in the near future?? What does everyone think?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=7422857
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/0,10801,99240,00.html


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