Google Hires Top Firefox Programmer

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Web search company Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web browser, fueling speculation that Google will create its own version of Firefox to take on Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.

Ben Goodger said in a note on his Web site -- http:/weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ -- that he would continue to work on Firefox, a free browser that has gained a popular following due to additional features and fewer attacks from malicious hackers than Internet Explorer.

Internet cognoscenti have speculated about a Google browser since the company registered the Gbrowser.com domain and hired several Internet Explorer engineers last year.

A Google spokeswoman in London declined to say whether the company had a browser in the works

"We can't share any information about what we're working on, but many of our products aim to transform the browsing experience,"
Maybe they'll pour some extra dough into Firefox development too...

Submitted by: GHoosdum

Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7422837)

[^Ben]

Google are turning into the DEVIL!

G.O.S.

[RWB]

How is this evil of them ^Ben? I see nothing wrong with anything.

[Unregistered (Guest)]

Tis a joke ;)

The next step for google is to make an O.S. And then THEY WILL BECOME MICROSOFT!!!!!

^Ben

[GHoosdum]

If they're making Gbrowser based on Firefox, maybe GOS will be Linux-based. That would rule.

However, it is true that as companies that start out user-friendly get bigger, they tend to care less about the users. Look at what happened to hotbot. And Nutscrape. And MLB.