Those Google Browser rumours…

Ben Goodger, the lead engineer on the Firefox project, has gone to work at Google. Or, as he puts it enigmatically on his Blog, “As of January 10, 2005, my source of income changed from The Mozilla Foundation to Google, Inc. of Mountain View, California. My role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged, I will continue doing much the same work as I have described above – with the new goal of successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases. I remain devoted full-time to the advancement of Firefox, the Mozilla platform and web browsing in general. I’m sure you have many questions. While I will be spending more time at Google, I will work out of the Mozilla Foundation offices regularly as the need arises. For all questions regarding Google, I ask that you contact Google directly, rather than myself.”

Hmmm… So Google are paying his salary, but he’s continuing to work on Firefox and other Mozilla stuff. Perhaps this is just Google’s way of supporting the Mozilla Foundation. Or then again…