More on Battier and Google "Defections"

The Memphis Flyer's Chris Herrington has written a nice little piece on Shane Battier for this week's issue. I didn't know about Shane's plus/minus rating, though I can't say it's surprising at all.

Darin Fisher, another full-time Mozilla developer, has left to work for Google. Like Ben Goodger, he'll still be working on Mozilla projects. Personally, I don't see any point to a Google-branded Firefox-based (or Gecko-based) browser. Branded browsers are always crap. What, it'll have integration with Google Desktop Search and Picasa? Isn't that just feature-creep? Doesn't it defeat the whole point of Firefox, and isn't that the reason Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape Communicator are nowhere near as popular as Firefox?