Ben Goodger Explained

Ben Goodger
Birth Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Google Chrome developer
Nationality:	British New Zealander
Website:	Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a British-New Zealand software engineer, formerly employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.^[1]

Goodger grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in May 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering.^[2] He now lives in Los Altos Hills, California and is currently working for Google Inc., where he leads user experience for the Google Chrome project.^[3]

External links

• • Ben Goodger's personal weblog
• Magpie - Ben's Firefox Extension (Maintained now by Christian Wallbaum)
• Old Magpie - Ben's Firefox Extension info
• Ben Goodger interview on FLOSS Weekly
  • Ben Goodger to Google on CNet News 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)

Notes and References

1. News: Fisher . Ken . Google hires Firefox lead developer . . 2005-01-24 . 2014-05-06 .
2. News: Gifford . Adam . Free door to software world . . 2005-02-09 . 2014-05-06 .
3. News: A Kiwi living the dream working for Google in Silicon Valley . . New Zealand . . 2014-05-02 . 2014-05-06 .