Neowin Interview : Ben Goodger from the Mozilla Foundation
Posted by Mr magoo on 27 May 2004 - 16:20 · 40 comments & 1388 views
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#1 Posted by Sim31 on 27 May 2004 - 16:30
- A well done excellent Interview!
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#2 Posted by supernova_00 on 27 May 2004 - 16:35
- Great interview...thanks Ben Goodger, lots of good info!
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#3 Posted by Zetter on 27 May 2004 - 16:44
- neowin has connections...
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#4 Posted by [Thrice] on 27 May 2004 - 16:47
- i test the 1.0 branch builds.. the new features in those builds are amazing.. they come out daily.. check mozillazine.org
been changing to the newest branch build daily.. its so great.. ive seen the extension manager from its very early stages... right now its just awesome! the installation of everything is smooth.. /me likes. -
#4.1 Posted by bangbang023 on 27 May 2004 - 18:18
- that's the 0.9 branch also. Anything that gets put into there before the 0.9 release will show up in the 0.9 final release.
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#5 Posted by Hawk999 on 27 May 2004 - 16:55
- Reading this made me impatient for the 0.9 and 1.0 releases
It sgoing to be an exciting time coming months
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#6 Posted by Filicide on 27 May 2004 - 17:08
- Good interview Magoo, thanks
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#7 Posted by Iluvatar on 27 May 2004 - 17:25
- great interview, cant wait
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#8 Posted by BOOGSoftball on 27 May 2004 - 17:35
- Nice work, Magoo!
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#9 Posted by stezo2k on 27 May 2004 - 17:39
- sounds great, just the questions i would of asked excellent interview
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#10 Posted by sadatkarim on 27 May 2004 - 17:46
- Yay early to mid june! Great interview!
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#10.1 Posted by rogerroger on 27 May 2004 - 17:48
- I agree, great interview. Great thoughful questions from Tom. I can't wait for the new release! Thanks all.
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#11 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 27 May 2004 - 19:04
- Excellent!
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#12 Posted by Callaway on 27 May 2004 - 19:10
- Love firefox, tabbed browsing and built-in pop-up blocker are long overdue for IE.
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#13 Posted by garymill234 on 27 May 2004 - 19:41
- I am using .8 now, and I look forward to .9, thanks for having the interview
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#14 Posted by tom5 on 27 May 2004 - 19:45
- Good to see Neowin is promoting Firefox/Mozilla - many ppl don't know how good it can be as an Internet Explorer replacement.
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#15 Posted by MuD on 27 May 2004 - 20:19
- Th@'s gr8 newz.
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#16 Posted by lexor on 27 May 2004 - 20:51
- this is me being picky, but do you guys know where to request features, a place where it would get noticed? or maybe you know some config file fix for my problem.
ok, if you click on a link in a window and it opens another window, but doesn't find the host, it would stop doing anyting and just show a white page, but it wont show the URL either, im Mozilla 1.x I can cntrl-click and open in new window, and it would paste the URL, even if it can't load the page. Firefox doesn't even do that.
My problem is that with my ISP the pages that are there not always load for some reason if links open in a new window (it's a know problem, a lot of of people experience, and doesn't seem to be related to any 1 browser/OS). So is there a way to make it paste the URL into new window automatically so I can hit 'Go' again? flipping back and forth and 'copy link' -> 'paste' gets really ennoying after a while. -
#16.1 Posted by franchise on 27 May 2004 - 20:55
- This is why we love extensions. They seem to have one for every situation.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#showfailedurl -
#16.2 Posted by elliot on 27 May 2004 - 20:59
- thanks for the extension linkage, i had the same problem
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#17 Posted by GeekBoy2000 on 27 May 2004 - 22:40
- With all the potential Moz/FireFox has, still through all of it's development and evolution, I find that it will not (any version - *ever*) properly determine if a page is newer than that which is cached. In most cases, it works, but still there are times when, as an example:
I'll visit a page daily and check for updates to a particular software app. I see no new date/version. I'll read BetaNews and see that a new version's released. I go back to the original/author's page again. No change. Hit "reload", and sure enough, I now see the new page/info. Who's to know if what you're looking at is accurate/up to date or not? I've seen this regardless of the preferences in Mozilla, and in the latest version of FireFox. I've reported it many times going way back. Still, it's not resolved. As nice as this browser *could* be, IMO, it's completely unsuitable as a default browser with this bug. It's a shame, but it's not unlike other potentially excellent software. Nice features, great interface, but core functionality that doesn't work reliably.
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#17.1 Posted by supernova_00 on 28 May 2004 - 03:41
- i've never had that problem
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#18 Posted by LMS[VS] on 27 May 2004 - 23:13
- It's funny to see that they have offices and job titles. If they are working full-time on this and distributing it for free... how do they make a living or afford offices/equipment?
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#18.1 Posted by tapo on 27 May 2004 - 23:57
- Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization. When AOL spun them off, they gave them $2 million, and they've been relying on that, and donations from users.
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#18.3 Posted by Corwin2 on 28 May 2004 - 13:13
- They also receive donations from companies (sun, red hat...) and they also sell services to companies (when they help them to deploy Mozilla at large scale for instance).
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#18.4 Posted by BOOGSoftball™ on 28 May 2004 - 17:43
- That's good info!
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#19 Posted by pctuk on 27 May 2004 - 23:29
- Neowin really are becoming a part of the IT news establishment with the scoops and all that. Great stuff!
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#20 Posted by Darken on 28 May 2004 - 03:51
- Great interview!
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#21 Posted by tickbabies on 28 May 2004 - 07:43
- good read. thanks
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#22 Posted by scoobydoobie on 28 May 2004 - 10:54
- Does anyone else get the impression that MrMagoo hates Microsoft? It seems all his articles are either pro opensource or anti-Microsoft
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#22.1 Posted by configure on 28 May 2004 - 11:12
- You know, maybe it's just because he is pro opensource but NOT hate Microsoft :/
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#22.2 Posted by BOOGSoftball™ on 28 May 2004 - 17:44
- Exactly...Magoo is an equal opportunity poster.
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#22.3 Posted by lexor on 28 May 2004 - 18:50
- however the directed nature of the interview is rather unsettling, the questions left no room for objection or less than positive outlook, like there are no challanges all the answers were like "we need to do this, then this then this etc." like it's a piece of cake, software development never is.
I would've appreciated some information into internal stuggles and challanges of the Mozilla Foundation and how they overcome them and learn from them. The above Q and A can be found in some PR, really not much of an interview.
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#23 Posted by Dark Warhawk on 28 May 2004 - 19:42
QUOTE Dramatically smaller download size
pfft all they did was use 7-zip. big deal, lot of the Unofficial Builds have been using it for a long while now.
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#24 Posted by Yvo on 28 May 2004 - 23:54
- Hmmm article was just mentioned on the TSS... You should pin it again for the additional load.
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