NewsForge: Q&A with Mozilla Engineering Director Chris Hofmann | Linux Today

NewsForge: Q&A with Mozilla Engineering Director Chris Hofmann

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 11, 2003

“Chris Hofmann is director of engineering of the Mozilla
Foundation. For the last eight years, Hofmann worked at Netscape
and was involved in every Netscape and Mozilla browser release
since Netscape 3.01. Last summer he was hired as the first employee
at the Mozilla Foundation and has spent the last few months in
startup mode getting the foundation off the ground.

Q: Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and integrated
search are some of the distinguishing features of Mozilla. What’s
coming next?

“A: We are working on developing Mozilla as a platform and Web
services are where we are putting the bulk of our efforts…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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