Firefox Engineer Goes to Google
Ben Goodger, one of the primary people responsible for Firefox has been hired by Google. What does this mean? His blog indicates that while this may delay the release of Firefox 1.1, it does not mean that he is off the project. I would like to think that this in fact means that a google browser is in the works and will be built on top of Firefox. So what? This would give Firefox the respect and recognition that it really needs to be successful. Firefox has already started becoming popular among those that have gotten tired of IE's spyware, popups, viruses and lack of standards support, but it is still mostly an unknown that is not seeing widespread adoption either at in the workplace or in homes. Simply adding the name "Google" to the browser, with no changes would drive people to start using it. Throw the resources behind the browser that Google would be able to and you would quickly have a serious contender to Internet Explorer.