Mike "Pink" Pinkerton is an American

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who is known for his work on the

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browsers. He lectures on ''Development of Open Source Software'' at

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. Pinkerton studied at

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where he graduated with a

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, then at Georgia Institute of Technology where he graduated with a

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. Pinkerton started working at

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in June 1997 where he worked on the

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and then

browsers. While at Netscape he started development of the Camino (then Chimera) web browser with

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. Hyatt, whom Pinkerton inexplicably refers to as "Jinglepants," was hired by

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to work on the Safari browser and Pinkerton became the Camino project lead. In October 2002 he started working at AOL as Netscape Communications became a division within AOL. In September 2005, he accepted a position at

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where he originally was part of their Firefox team. On January 9, 2006, Pinkerton announced on his blog that he had moved to Google's "Mac Client Team". On September 3, 2008, he announced on his blog that he was working on Mac port of Google's Chrome browser. In 2018 Pink’s team launched version 69 of Chrome iOS as part of the Chrome 10th Anniversary. Prior to his Chrome work, Mike was the Technical Lead for Google Desktop for Mac.

References

External links

Mike's Slice of Home
- a personal website
Mike Pinkerton on Camino
- "Open Source Developers at Google" Speaker Series
Sucking less, on a budget
- a personal weblog
Interview with Camino project head Mike Pinkerton
- a September 2004 interview with Ars Technica {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinkerton, Mike Mozilla developers Open source people Computer programmers American bloggers Google employees Living people Georgia Tech alumni Year of birth missing (living people)