Just to clarify, I was ready to provide answers back in September (a ridiculous delay, I know, and I apologize). However, Daniel told me at that point that the interview would no longer work out due to changes at OperaWatch that he could not tell me about.

If there’s still sufficient interest, I’d be happy to post answers on my own blog, or to take new questions from the Opera community (given that many centered on Firefox 2, which has since been released).

Blake

Don’t keep those answers to yourself!!! We want to see what Blake had to say…

Opera “copied” Firefoxs’ Live Bookmark icon, the about:config function and a bunch of Firefox Extensions. Do you see me rant.

Then Philip “pips” Seyfi replied:

No - http://www.feedicons.com/

FWIW, the icon was created for Firefox. The Firefox team then encouraged its use in other products.

Rob Campbell
Finite Monkeys

What web browser do you normally use?

There are many people in different browser communities (for example Opera and Firefox) who strongly support their own browser. For example, there are people who denounce Opera in support of Firefox. Do you approve of this support of Firefox? Do you think that one browser is actually “better” than another?

There are currently many extensions for Firefox. Don’t you think it is difficult for the “average joe” to find the extension of their choice? Doesn’t this make the “extendable” idea of Firefox impractical for people who don’t know exactly what they are looking for?

Mr. Blake Ross,
- Where the idea of “FireFox” name came?
- What do you think will happen to the future of browsers world?
- If somone or a big company like Microsoft or google offer you to buy your compnay, what will your reaction be? or would you accpet?
- Do you think if Opera and Mozilla join togheter and build up a big compnay, can they grab the browsers role from IE…
- If you reborn will you agian start the firfox and mozilla project from scratch?

Thanks for your time.

Q’s
Will FF be adding more functionality into the core product (eg more tabbing control)?

Is there a thought on providing a better interface to the extensions database thru the use of tags and finer granularity of sections?

What is being done to lessen the pain of version upgrading re:extensions not loading/working?

Will FF be re-engineered to load faster and consume fewer resources? On Suse 10.1 loading is slowwwwww.

And lastly a comment which may no longer be relevant since I gave up on reading Asa’s blogs long ago but I will ask anyhow - why doesn’t anyone at Mozilla Org. discuss with him the need to work with the community at large (inc. Opera and IE) instead of attacking and villifying the competition. Personally I find his writings over-the-top and wonder if he does this just to inflame and if that’s the case then it’s pretty childish and such behavior should be stopped.

1. As a former core developer of Firefox and Gecko, what can you say about the code itself. Do you agree that codes readability is crippled by use of tons of obscure macros and strange names and seems to prevent more programmers joining core development?
2. Do you agree with Safari teams choice of choosing KHTML instead of Gecko, even one of their lead developer was a ex-gecko progremmer. And do you think Gecko should be redesigned and rewritten again, considering the developments on the IT sector.
3. What are you doing behind the curtains for more than 1 year.. For God’s sake!