Mike Connor

Mozilla Corporation

Mike directs the Firefox development team and is responsible for release management for the product. He previously worked at IBM and has been an active and valuable contributor to the Mozilla Project for many years. Mike briefly attended university before leaving to pursue his interest in technology, a decision he never regrets. His wife, Lucy, is also active in the Mozilla community, and they have two children and three cats, none of whom are involved in Mozilla as of now.

Sessions

4:45pm Monday, 06/23/2008
What’s New in Firefox 3
Performance
 Location: Salon A-D
Mike Connor (Mozilla Corporation)
In this session, Mike Connor, lead developer for Mozilla Firefox, will discuss the major performance improvements to Firefox 3, including speed, memory usage, and reliability. Read more.
2:30pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Building Faster Pages in Firefox and Internet Explorer
Performance
 Location: Salon A-D
Eric Lawrence (Microsoft), Mike Connor (Mozilla Corporation), Christian Stockwell (Microsoft Corporation)
Learn how to wring the most performance out of Internet Explorer, taking advantage of caching, compression, and Ajax performance improvements; also how developers can use technologies available in Firefox to make web pages run at top speeds. Read more.

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