Seattle PI posted an article about one of the creators of the Firefox browser, which more and more people use nowadays.
It seems that he, Blake Ross, is a 19 year old computer science major at Stanford University..
At 17, Ross and another Netscape programmer, David Hyatt, started a side project that became Firefox. They wanted to strip down Netscape and the Mozilla suite on which it is based. By reducing the software to its browsing basics, they figured it would run more efficiently.
Ross and Hyatt created an early version of the browser. Because the project was open source, thousands of volunteers could examine the programming code and suggest ways to improve performance and fix bugs.
Read the full article about Blake Ross at Seattle PI
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Re: The co-creator of Firefox - a 19 year old computer genius by Anonymous on Monday, January 25 2010 @ 05:01:45 CET
fire fox needs an upgrade, i cant play many 3d games without fire fox closing on me, if the becomes a problem in the future i will no longer use fire fox, even though it is pretty great.