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]

Ben Goodger
Born	London, England
Nationality	British New Zealander
Occupation	Google Chrome developer
Website	Ben Goodger

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]

Footnotes

1. Fisher, Ken (24 January 2005). "Google hires Firefox lead developer". Ars Technica. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
2. Gifford, Adam (9 February 2005). "Free door to software world". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
3. "A Kiwi living the dream working for Google in Silicon Valley". Seven Sharp. New Zealand: TVNZ. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.

External links

• Ben Goodger on Twitter
• 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)