Ben Goodger
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Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and lead developer of the Firefox web browser.[1] His key areas of responsibility include:
- Extension system
- Software update system
- Download system
- Options interface
- Permissions manager interface
- Preference migration from other browsers
- Windows shell integration
Ben grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering.[1] He now lives in Mountain View, California[1] and is currently working for Google Inc.[1] When he was a teenager, Ben gained some notoriety in anime nerd circles for his large and very popular Sailor Moon website called "Millennium", which shares the same namesake as his personal website. Ben also collects Disney comics.
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[edit] External links
- Ben Goodger's personal weblog
- Inside Firefox — Ben Goodger's Firefox related weblog
- Magpie — Ben's Firefox Extension (Maintained now by Christian Wallbaum)
- Old Magpie — Ben's Firefox Extension info
- Kiwi leads effort to build a better browser (Paul Brislen, New Zealand Herald, 17 September 2004)
- Unearthing the origins of Firefox (Paul Festa, CNet, 13 October 2004)
- Ben Goodger interview on FLOSS Weekly
