Ben Goodger - Definition and Overview

Ben Goodger (b. March 31, 1980, London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and lead developer of the Firefox web browser. 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. He now lives in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California and is currently working for Google.

Links

• Ben Goodger's personal weblog (http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/)
• Inside Firefox (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/) — Ben Goodger's Firefox related weblog
• Magpie (http://www.bengoodger.com/software/tabloader/) — Ben's Firefox Extension
• Kiwi leads effort to build a better browser (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3592035) (Paul Brislen, New Zealand Herald, 17 Sep 2004)
• Unearthing the origins of Firefox (http://news.com.com/Unearthing+the+origins+of+Firefox/2008-1032_3-5406708.html?tag=nl) (Paul Festa, CNet, 13 Oct 2004)