Google Hires Top Firefox Web Browser Programmer
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Web search company Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web browser, fueling speculation that Google will create its own version of Firefox to take on Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.
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Mozilla has hired top employees at Humanized, a small company known for its innovative work in intuitive user interfaces.
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In a move that beats competitors Yahoo, Microsoft, America Online and Ask Jeeves to the starting gate, Internet search giant Google (GOOG) on Thursday announced a program enhancement
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Google said Tuesday that it had acquired software company PeakStream, which specializes in software to assist developers in programming for multi-core processors.
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com December 12, 2004, 2:25 PM PT. Firefox, the open-source challenger to Web browsing heavyweight Microsoft Internet Explorer, has surpassed 10 million downloads in a little more
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Want to bend Firefox to your will, keep yourself safer while you surf, and customize how Google works? These great Firefox extensions will let you do it.
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Code analysis row after tool identifies 611 defects Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written.â¦
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Google Inc. said Tuesday that its chief financial officer will retire by the end of the year, creating the highest-ranking job opening at the Internet search leader since it went public three years ago.
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Mozilla has tapped John Lilly to become its new chief executive officer. Lilly, who served as the CEO of software-maker Reactivity prior to becoming Mozilla's vice president of business development in 2005, will be responsible for leading the Firefox developer's ambitious plans to dramatically extend the reach of its Web-based applications into the mobile and services arenas.
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Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer.Baker is handing over the CEO job to John Lilly, Mozilla&#39;s chief operating officer, who becomes responsible for pushing out the updates to Firefox and Mozilla&#39;s Thunderbird e-mail software, the company announced Monday. Baker will retain her role as chairman and stay active within the group, she said.Baker has been with Mozilla since its inception. She was an attorney with Netscape Communications in the late 1990s when it created the Mozilla Organization, and she stayed with the group after AOL bought Netscape and helped to create the Mozilla Foundation in 2003.Since then the open-source browser has built a worldwide market share of about 15 percent, according to estimates, and as high as 30 percent in some European markets. Mozilla says it now has 125 million Firefox users worldwide.In a blog posting Monday, Baker said she&#39;d been thinking for some time about the best way to use her time and about which of her duties could be handled equally well by someone else. Those duties, it turns out, are the day to day management of Mozilla&#39;s software, while Baker sees a wider role for herself in improving the Web experience for end-users.&quot;I have a vision of the Internet and online life and a positive user experience -- and of Mozilla&#39;s role in creating these -- that is far broader than browsers, e-mail clients and even technology in general,&quot; she wrote.She said she&#39;ll focus on efforts to make the Web standards process more effective, make security &quot;understandable enough that people can protect themselves,&quot; and encourage more &quot;hybrid&quot; organizations like Mozilla -- &quot;organizations which serve the public benefit but support themselves through revenue rather than fund-raising.&quot;&quot;I want Mozilla&#39;s influence on the industry to go beyond the bits we ship as software. More particularly, I want to use the impact Firefox gives us in the market to get openness, collaboration and user control embedded in other products, services and aspects of online life,&quot; she wrote.Lilly, her replacement, will be focused on getting the next version of Mozilla&#39;s Web browser, Firefox 3, out of the door. He also wants to be more open about how Mozilla operates and how it will support itself in the future. &quot;I&#8217;d like us to start talking more in public about how the future looks for Mozilla,&quot; he wrote on his blog.Baker remains chairman of both the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit side of the project, and the Mozilla Corporation, which was formed a few years ago to help raise funds and manage product releases.&quot;I&#39;ve been involved in shipping Mozilla products since the dawn of time, and have no intention of distancing myself from our products or [Mozilla Corporation,]&quot; Baker wrote.
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The Web is filling up with rumors about an alliance between search giant and browser maker Firefox. LONDON  - The Firefox browser is looking for allies in its quest to challenge Microsoft&#39;s dominant
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Google is offering developers the same security API it and Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox use to identify and warn users about phishing and malware-dropping sites.
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Mozilla has hired three of the five top employees at Humanized, a small company known for its innovative work to provide more intuitive user interfaces, but will not reveal their identities.
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Firefox 1.0 appears to have sparked new activity in the Web browser market. The release of the open-source Web browser by the Mozilla Foundation last week prompted Microsoft Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will tackle offline access, one of the thorniest problems facing Web-hosted applications, when it releases an early-stage browser extension called Gears to developers worldwide on Wednesday. The launch of the open-source Gears is tied to Google's Developer Day, the company's largest event aimed at third-party software developers, which is scheduled for Thursday. For the first time, it will take place in 10 cities around the world. Google hopes developers will give Gears a test drive and send feedback on how it can be improved. Ultimately, Google would like to see the Gears effort yield an industry standard for providing offline access to Web-hosted applications. "This effort is very significant and interesting. It's, in a lot of ways, the next step for the Web," said David M. Smith, a Gartner analyst. Although some makers of online applications have developed offline components for them, the Google approach stands to have a widespread impact because it is focused on developers and on creating an open standard the entire industry can benefit from, Smith said. Backing Gears publicly at this time are Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera Software, although Google is in confidential conversations with other IT vendors, Google officials said. A glaring omission on the list is Google rival Microsoft with its Internet Explorer browser, the most widely used in the world. "Microsoft will have to either decide to join this effort or come up with something of its own," Smith said, adding that the issue of offline access is screaming for a solution. Adobe will make the Gears API available on its Apollo platform, which itself is designed for building offline components for online applications. As makers of popular alternatives to IE, Mozilla and Opera are collaborating with Google on the Gears project because they share the belief that offline access is critical for Web applications. Google is a major backer of the Web-hosted application model, which has been gaining momentum over the past year. Because applications are hosted by vendors, customers generally spend less time, effort, and money deploying and maintaining them than packaged software they install on their own servers. Another perceived benefit is that these Web-hosted applications often are designed from the ground up to allow groups of users to share documents easily and collaborate on them online instead of each employee working individually on a file on his PC and later using e-mail to gather feedback on it. However, real challenges exist for the hosted model, including concerns about the availability and reliability of vendors' servers and about the security of corporate data when it is housed externally on vendors' premises. Also high on the list of objections to hosted applications is that many of them lack an offline, or desktop PC, component, which prevents users from accessing them when they aren't connected to the Internet. The Gears project aims to address and, in fact, eventually stamp out this problem. "It's a big shortcoming. It's one of the main ones people mention" for online applications, Smith said. "This [Gears project] isn't a silver bullet. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done." Currently, Google's own Apps suite of hosted collaboration and communication applications offers what officials acknowledge is rudimentary and less-than-convenient offline access: It lets users export and import files to and from equivalent desktop applications, such as Microsoft's Word and Excel. "The offline experience is definitely a hole in the product," Rajen Sheth, product manager with Google's Enterprise unit, said several weeks ago. As part of Wednesday's announcement, Google is providing offline capabilities to its online syndicated feed manager, called Reader, the first concrete example of what developers can accomplish with Gears, Google officials said. Smith said the Reader example is a fine one, but the real excitement will be generated when Google does the same for its Gmail Web mail service and for Docs & Spreadsheets, the online word processor and spreadsheet software that is part of Google Apps. Gears works with all major browsers and operating systems. It is available online. Google also has a Developer Day Web site where it will webcast the U.S. and U.K. events and post photos, presentations, and related material. Other expected announcements include: *Â Google Mashup Editor, an experimental online code editor designed for creating mashups, or online applications built using components like services and data from existing Web sites. Mashup Editor will simplify the creation of AJAX user interfaces, according to Google. *Â Google Web Toolkit, which has been downloaded more than 1 million times since its release in May 2006, will get support for Gears in its API Library.
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AJAX, .Net, PHP and other Web 2.0 programming skills top the in-demand list.
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Found this really cool search engine (Koders ) via ResearchBuzz:   "An article at Newsforge pointed me to Koders ( http://www.koders.com ) a search engine for finding programming code. Nifty. The front page allows you to specify keywords, sixteen languages (from..."  This is pretty dead on.  I had a similar idea about 3 years ago I was calling SourceEngine which for a while was my Alexandria  project under Jakarta.  Some of this technology morphed into Gump .  Heres one innovation which I don't think Koders has picked up yet; use source includes as indegree to compute a CodeRank.  There you go... I'm giving you guys that one for free!  This is the Google innovation but applied to source code ...