Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future

An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand Herald has an interview with Ben Goodger, lead engineer for Firefox at the Mozilla foundation. In it he describes how he got started, his reasons for Firefox's existence and what the future may hold for the little browser that could."

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[techefnet]

Its nice to see firefox is doing so well. Mozilla is just a resource hug.. Thats why i changed :)

Re:I just swithced a coworker today!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not spyware. That's multiple IE windows :)

Re:firefox

[Jeff Mahoney]

Aww, Mozilla, the touchy feely browser. It hugs my resources!

Process for Takeover

[syntap]

1) Take 90% of browser market share

2) Integrate into Windows Explorer and tell judges it can't be ripped out

My best sig is this one.

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[Trillan]

An easier wish might be "Slashdot updates its HTML for 2001."

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[Anonymous Coward]

2. Firefox renders slashdot correctly, since this is the site that promotes it the most.

No, the IT theme is meant to be like that

That title...

[over_exposed]

...just cracks me up. "Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future"

It just sounds DIRTY... If there was some guys Goodger in my future, I'd certainly try to do something about it...

Why those suburbs?

[CynicalGeek]

What's wrong with Ponsonby or Remuera - much classier. Or Manukau, Otahuhu, Papatoetoe - much more authentic. They could offer a porn-optimised version of Firefox codenamed "K-Road".

Re:I just swithced a coworker today!

[TheDarkener]

And I just switched a coworkers todays toos! He had 10-11 different spywares on his computers toos! Wows!

Re:Process for Takeover

[Anonymous Coward]

>It'd be interesting if MS started including Firefox instead of IE

Yeah, it'd also be interesting if Hell started importing ice.

Re:Only 3 days

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course, I personally downloaded 300,000 of them myself, just to stuff the ballot box, so to speak... :-) :-)

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[recursiv]

It's well known (by me, and for no good reason at that) that they don't use CSS because they think HTML should be enough for any web page. After all, everyone knows that CSS is for LiveJournal lusers to set their scroll bar colors, and could not possibly have any practical application. Real men use tables for layout, and that's that. A real programmer would never prefer CSS's long spelled out english words like border-color in favor of HTML's ULs and TDs. People who use CSS to obtain some result that could be possible with straight HTML are obviously being inefficient. They are probably wasting several bytes on those long, spelled out words.
The content is the only thing matters is the content anyway. If it's so bad, why don't you make your own front end for the RSS feed? That's the true Open Source way! Plus, what if someone tries to access /. in Netscape Navigator 3.0. It will surely choke on the CSS, and give some unpredictable result.

Better safe than sorry.

Re:firefox

[pyrrhonist]

Slashdotters seem always to find a way to make fun of my comments. :/

Alright, it's make fun of Techefnet's comments day! Here we go...

Thats so unfear.

Techefnet does not fear the undead, but he sure unfears the dead!

That sucked. Damn. Forget I said anything...

Re:I suggested to my boss today........

[savagedome]

Mods, how is this funny? This is interesting, maybe insightful or at the least informative? Underrated if you will. Flamebait if you are hardcore IE'er. Troll if msft gives you a pay cheque. Redundant if you don't know what it means. But not funny. ARRRLovin is making a good point. Come on.

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[Blakey Rat]

And here chimes in Mr. Doesn't-Get-The-Joke to spoil everyone's fun.

Re:That title...

[dosius]

A snake, a snake a snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake, ooh, it's a snake.... o/`

Sorry, couldn't resist. Now watch my karma take a nosedive.

Moll.

Re:That title...

[atomm1024]

You can make almost anything sound dirty if you say it in the right tone. For example:

"Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to

CowboyNeal."

Teeheehee, "comment posting"...

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[MrHanky]

No, he'll get modded up for saying 'Now mod me down'. Didn't you get the memo?

Re:Only 5-6?

[thephotoman]

I'm an undergrad that saw both the Firefox and Linux light. I'm now prostletyzing for both.

Re:Process for Takeover

[BandwidthHog]

Yeah, it'd also be interesting if Hell started importing ice.

I think they already do that. It's the export market you wanna keep an eye on.

Re:Process for Takeover

[polin8]

What IE development?

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[seti32]

No. This is normal... they're just dupes.

But seriously, I am getting current articles from the feed.

Re:Firewall Port

[DA-MAN]

Try blocking port80, that should get most of them. If that doesn't work, try port 21 as well.

Is Goodger a new extension?

[signingis]

Ohh... It's a guy. Okay. Carry on.

Re:That title...

[xpatiate]

even better, in my Firefox tab the title is trunced to read "Mozilla's Goodger on Fire..."

Re:Only 5-6?

[maxpublic]

I'm now prostletyzing for both.

I'd suggest that you put off preaching to the masses until you've finished the more important task of completing English 101.

Either that, or apply for a job as a Slashdot editor. In two sentences you've managed to make an excellent case concerning your qualifications.

Max

Re:Won't help

[Anonymous Coward]

If all you're doing is looking at porn then you don't need Trojans.

Who should i blame then...

[Insipid Trunculance]

i was going to blame /. for the way the web site renders in Firefox.

Then i read that its not Slashdot ,its actually firefox.

Then i read that it actually is /. since its HTML is not valid.

So can i continue blaming /. or shall i play safe and blame MicroSoft.

many thanks for your invaluable opinions.

Real Men

[commodoresloat]

Real men use tables for layout, and that's that. A real programmer would never prefer CSS's long spelled out english words like border-color in favor of HTML's ULs and TDs.

Yeah! And real men read web pages using only cat, parsing the HTML in their heads!

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[mcrbids]

I really think Slashdot updating their HTML would be _much_ harder than what was suggested above. MUUUUUCH harder. I think what was suggested above will happen much sooner.

I think you are probably right. And so does somebody else! [w3.org]

Re:My Wishlist for FireFox

[LPetrazickis]

In Modern Slashdot, 2004 is updated for HTML 3.0.

Re:Oh? Then why do you block wc3 validator?

[jamie]

Presumably because w3.org has an ill-behaved script that triggered our self-defense scripts at some point in the past. If they published the IP they used in some obvious location I'd be happy to unblock it. But I couldn't find it in their FAQ or anything.

The conspiracy theories are fun to read though... hey, I said we emitted HTML 3.2... I never said it was valid :)