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Secrets of Firefox 2.0, straight from Mozilla mouth
Published October 31st, 2006 in All Categories, Firefox
Firefox is a major piece of software with millions of users, or seen another way, it’s a collection of 
very small things that need fixing.
“When it comes to development, small is a really nice way to do things,” said Mozilla’s technology strategist Mike Shaver, who spoke Friday at the fifth annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium at Seneca College.
Shaver, a 29-year-old Canadian, is one of the co-founders of the Mozilla Organization, which co-ordinates the development of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. Firefox 2.0, its first major browser release in two years, was launched earlier this week.
Firefox, by necessity and by design, is a series of small tasks, said Shaver. Unlike proprietary software (for example, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, which was released last week) Firefox welcomes the contributions of its users and actively encourages them to submit add-ons and fixes to problems they see. IT Business
