Google has apparently hired one of Firefox’s top programmers. He will apparently keep working on Firefox for Google. Google have also registered gbrowser.com and have sponsored Mozilla dev conferences and allowed Mozilla to have their own custom Google Firefox homepage. Does this mean we will soon be seeing a Google web browser? Time will tell, but if we do, it will most likely be similar to what Netscape does with the full Mozilla suite, change the logo, add some links, and AOL stuff and send it out as “Netscape”. In Google’s case, we will probably see a Firefox version of the Google toolbar and possibly their desktop search software. This is probably good news, having Google’s name attached can only be a good thing for boosting Firefox usage, and for Google they get to be the default homepage and search engine in a web browser. (just like MSN is in Internet Explorer). Learn more at CNET.
Update:
It has just come out that Google have employed another of Firefox’s programming guns. Darin Fischer recently announced his new employment in his blog here. Like Ben, he will continuing his involvement with Firefox.
