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Ben Goodger

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Ben Goodger is a British-New Zealand software engineer, born in London, England, who is best known for his work on the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers. He grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in May 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He worked at Netscape Communications Corporation and at the Mozilla Foundation, where he was the lead developer of Firefox. He joined Google in 2005, where he was one of the leaders of Google Chrome, and in 2024 he joined OpenAI, focusing on the development of ChatGPT Atlas.

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    is a British-New Zealand software engineer
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    He is best known for his work on the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers.
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    where he was the lead developer of Firefox
  • Career, Chrome
    where he was one of the leaders of Google Chrome
  • Affiliated With: Mozilla Foundation, Affiliation, mozilla-foundation
    Goodger worked at Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation
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