CNet has an interesting interview with Joe Hewitt, one of the original Phoenix project founders along with Blake Ross and David Hyatt. Phoenix would develop and change its name a couple of times to become today’s Mozilla Firefox.

The interview takes on the old days of Phoenix, the founding of Parakey and its recent buy out by Facebook, and his current plans and work aboard the dominant social site. He also talks about Firebug, a Firefox extension considered by many as a web developer’s best friend and his most recent creation, iUI: from overnight project to Apple recommended product for iPhone applications development.

Read the full interview at CNET Newsmakers.