Firefox Lead Now Working For Google

Firefox Lead Now Working For Google 457

Posted by michael on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:50PM 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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Maybe he was just bitter (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:51PM (#11461946)

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

I was just thinking... (Score:4, Funny)

by Cyn ( 50070 ) writes: <<gro.nyc> <ta> <nyc>> on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:52PM (#11461969) Homepage

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

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

Uh-oh... bad news for Google... (Score:4, Funny)

by winkydink ( 650484 ) * writes: <sv.dude@gmail.com> on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:53PM (#11461980) Homepage Journal

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

So THAT's why... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:56PM (#11462029)

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

The ever puzzling Google guys (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Cowherd X ( 850136 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:00PM (#11462081) Journal

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!

Re:I was just thinking... (Score:5, Funny)

by Coneasfast ( 690509 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:01PM (#11462088)

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!"

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:05PM (#11462157)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Google vs Hyatt (Score:5, Funny)

by skyman8081 ( 681052 ) writes: <skyman8081@noSpAm.gmail.com> on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:09PM (#11462205) Homepage

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" [mozilla.org]

Let them answer themself! (Score:2, Funny)

by thijsa ( 849477 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:10PM (#11462211)

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

Re:I was just thinking... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:13PM (#11462249)

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... ;)

Re:So google is paying him to work on firefox? (Score:3, Funny)

by thijsa ( 849477 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:15PM (#11462275)

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

Right On About Gecko! (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:25PM (#11462393)

According to the dicussion at MozillaZine [mozillazine.org], 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!

Re:Big deal... (Score:4, Funny)

by PornMaster ( 749461 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:34PM (#11462493) Homepage

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

Re:What a great way to influence a project (Score:2, Funny)

by rbarreira ( 836272 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:34PM (#11462499) Homepage

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

Not good (Score:3, Funny)

by roman_mir ( 125474 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @08:10PM (#11462919) Homepage Journal

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.

Re:This is bad, youre worse (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @08:22PM (#11463030)

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

Re:Google vs Hyatt (Score:2, Funny)

by Agret ( 752467 ) writes: <alias DOT zero2097 AT gmail DOT com> on Monday January 24, 2005 @09:22PM (#11463561) Homepage Journal

------- 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.

Too bad... (Score:2, Funny)

by This Is Ridiculous ( 234241 ) writes: <brentdaxNO@SPAMcpan.org> on Monday January 24, 2005 @10:39PM (#11464050) Homepage

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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Maybe he was just bitter (Score:4, Funny)

I was just thinking... (Score:4, Funny)

Uh-oh... bad news for Google... (Score:4, Funny)

So THAT's why... (Score:2, Funny)

The ever puzzling Google guys (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I was just thinking... (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

Google vs Hyatt (Score:5, Funny)

Let them answer themself! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I was just thinking... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:So google is paying him to work on firefox? (Score:3, Funny)

Right On About Gecko! (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Big deal... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:What a great way to influence a project (Score:2, Funny)

Not good (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This is bad, youre worse (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Google vs Hyatt (Score:2, Funny)

Too bad... (Score:2, Funny)

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