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Doug Turner (Mozilla)

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Religion
  
Catholic

Role
  
Mozilla

Name
  
Doug Turner

Spouse(s)
  
Marcie Turner



Born
  
January 26, 1975 (age 49) (
1975-01-26
)

Children
  
Dylan TurnerMadison Turner

Residence
  
Campbell, California, United States

Alma mater
  
San Jose State University

Doug Turner is the ex-Director of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation and long-time contributor to Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation hired Turner in December 2004 to work full-time on mobile projects such as Minimo and Mozilla Joey. He was the Foundation's 12th hire. Turner was previously employed by Netscape before the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.

Doug Turner invented Geolocation on the Web, Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access. Doug Turner invented Simple Push Notifications. Push Notification are a way for application developers to send messages to their web applications.

Doug Turner was the maintainer of the now-defunct Minimo project and worked on its successor Firefox for mobile. Doug Turner led the effort to rewrite the Firefox Mobile browser in order to improve performance, responsiveness, and memory usage..

Doug Turner left Mozilla in September 2016.

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Doug Turner (Mozilla) Wikipedia


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