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Below are the answers to the questions some of you submitted a little while ago for Blake Ross, the founder and creator of Mozilla Firefox. As Opera users we owe a lot of credit to Firefox for successfully bringing more awareness to alternative browsers. We benefited a great deal from iby having less compatibility issues with broken webpages. There is much work to be done to bring the Firefox and Opera communities closer, there’s no need for the trolling and bickering among our fans. We both make fantastic browsers, strive for standards compliance, and have security as our number one goal.

Hopefully this interview will show the best of what our communities have to offer. I’d like to personally ask to keep the trolling away – let’s set an example here.

Seamus: What have been some of your biggest internal conflicts (great geeky feature compare to a grandma usable browser) in creating Firefox?

Blake Ross: I think complex software results from barreling ahead without challenging the status quo. It seems like everybody I know has trouble finding documents on their computer, and yet Microsoft Word never improves the file picker, perhaps because it’s so mundane that developers overlook it. Most of the frustrations I observe among average users occur in these developer “blind spots.” Inertia is a formidable opponent. Interview with Firefox Founder and Creator Blake Ross » Opera Watch