Firefox Director Talks Firefox 3.6, Tasks, and Competing with Chrome
We were eager to know what's happening with Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the open-source browser's director, was glad to tell us. Here's what he had to say about future features, competition with Chrome, and keeping all of Firefox contributors in sync.
When Beltzner was graduating from Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., with Bachelor of Education degrees in computers and math, preceded by a B.S. in cognitive science, Firefox was still three years off, a future outgrowth of dissatisfaction with the Mozilla Suite's feature bloat. He quickly discovered he "didn't have the patience for high school students, or unions," but a recruiter thought his studies, along with his tenure as a freelance web site builder and layout director for the weekly paper Golden Words, made him a perfect fit for IBM's user experience design team.
Work at Big Blue involved, in part, watching workers use business-to-business software from behind one-way glass, but also gave Beltzner a taste for open source.
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