Firefox Development Director Mike Belzner leaves Mozilla

Mike Beltsner - the person responsible for the development of Firefox, today announced that he will leave Mozilla Corporation after he releases the fourth Firefox and will help the team move on to the independent development of the fifth version.

In his blog, he wrote that he would manage the product strategy of a small team of "incredibly smart people developing advanced and revolutionary technologies." We are talking about the company Dug Software , which is engaged in the supply of software for geological exploration.

Belzner came to Mozilla Corporation from IBM Canada almost 6 years ago. In Mozilla, he oversaw the development of the Firefox browser. With it, Mozilla released six large Firefox updates - from 1.5 to the very soon expected 4. With it, Firefox overtook Internet Explorer in the browser market and forced Microsoft to support universal Internet standards. According to various estimates, Firefox currently occupies about 30% of the browser market, and this is indeed an achievement.