Ben Goodger
Born
NationalityBritish New Zealander
OccupationGoogle Chrome developer
WebsiteBen 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]

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.


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