Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and lead developer of the Firefox web browser. His key areas of responsibility include:

• Extension system
• Software update system
• Download system
• Options interface
• Permissions manager interface
• Preference migration from other browsers
• Windows shell integration

Ben grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He now lives in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California and is currently working for Google Inc.

External links

• Ben Goodger's personal weblog
• Inside Firefox — Ben Goodger's Firefox related weblog
• Magpie — Ben's Firefox Extension
• Kiwi leads effort to build a better browser (Paul Brislen, New Zealand Herald, 17 Sep 2004)
• Unearthing the origins of Firefox (Paul Festa, CNet, 13 Oct 2004)