Firefox 1.0 Set For September

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Firefox 1.0 Targeted for September

Firefox 1.0 Targeted for September 07/13/2004 07:15 AM
The Mozilla Organization has updated the roadmap for Firefox, placing the major 1.0 milestone release on September 14. Three release candidates are scheduled, with RC1 set for August 10. Mozilla's Ben Goodger notes that the final release may slip, but says "it gives us a near term goal to target and then slip from, rather than wait for things to fall into place." Firefox 0.9 was issued last month, being billed as a faster and more secure alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Firefox 1.0 targeted for September 14
release

Firefox 1.0 targeted for September 14
release 07/13/2004 05:20 AM

Mozilla Firefox Browser Set for
September Debut

Mozilla Firefox Browser Set for
September Debut 07/12/2004 05:35 PM
As downloads of the browser's final beta increase in the face of Internet Explorer exploits, the Mozilla Foundation plans to hit its 1.0 release in mid-September.

BW Online | September 17, 2004 | A
Firefox in IE's Henhouse

BW Online | September 17, 2004 | A
Firefox in IE's Henhouse 09/17/2004 10:10 AM
BusinessWeek online reports .. very noticeably eroding .. Business Week .. businessweek

businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2004/tc20040917_ 1883_tc119.htm
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Mozilla Firefox Roadmap Targets 1.0
Release for September 14th

Mozilla Firefox Roadmap Targets 1.0
Release for September 14th 07/13/2004 08:28 AM

Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap Targets
1.0 Release for September 14th

Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap Targets
1.0 Release for September 14th 07/12/2004 09:12 PM

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives"

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives" 09/07/2004 03:14 AM

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives 09/08/2004 07:11 AM
Jimmy Carter to Zell Miller .. righteous outrage

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_05.php#003438
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Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million 04/11/2005 11:59 PM

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up 02/01/2005 10:05 PM

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox!

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox! 08/18/2004 06:48 AM
adbar for firefox .. Adbar

squarefree.com/extensions/adbar
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The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox 03/31/2005 07:27 AM

JunkYardBlog: September 19, 2004 -
September 25, 2004 Archives

JunkYardBlog: September 19, 2004 -
September 25, 2004 Archives 09/24/2004 05:37 PM
Junkyard Blog has one idea .. Tubby Reifensthal returns .. must-read post

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Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox 09/14/2004 02:50 PM

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch 09/14/2004 03:22 AM
The Mozilla Foundation today released the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 email client. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is an innovative, secure, lightning fast web browser that is rapidly gaining global market share. Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 is the Mozilla Foundation's next generation email client. These releases bring Firefox and Thunderbird one step closer to their much anticipated 1.0 releases, scheduled for later this fall. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR 09/17/2004 08:22 AM
FF/IE Compatible Web Pages - There is a new development in the web design world, web pages that can be viewed equally in Firefox or Internet Explorer. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

September 11

September 11 09/11/2004 08:54 AM
It's in images that I find myself remembering those who died in the attack. Horrifying, heart-tearing images. But it's with an intake of breath that I remember those who walked into flaming towers to save others....

September?!

September?! 09/01/2004 10:10 AM
Holy moly but I can't believe it's September already! I'm not sure where the entire summer went, but it seems to be nearly gone. The nice thing about that? So are the tourists! Different plants are blooming, traffic is returning to what it was back in June, and we're into an R month so I can go shellfishing for oysters!

"September 11 and Its Aftermath"

"September 11 and Its Aftermath" 09/12/2004 02:12 PM

"September 2003"

"September 2003" 02/19/2004 06:44 AM

September 14, 2004

September 14, 2004 09/14/2004 12:47 PM

We've been quietly making some improvements to the beta discussion group software.

Today we rolled out Brett's new full-text search feature. It relies on the database engine to provide full-text search, and we're running Microsoft SQL Server, which has rather poor full-text search capabilities: for example, it requires a manual process to rebuild the index, which we schedule for every 15 minutes, so it won't find anything posted in the last few minutes.

I also added an RSS feed. Originally I wanted to provide full text of all topics and replies in the last three days so that you could use an RSS reader to read the discussion group. Unfortunately that would have resulted in a huge download, and since RSS readers bang on the site every hour or three, our bandwidth usage would have been absurd. So I had to settle for full text of the original topic but not of replies.

And finally we got Summer Intern Ben's excellent Bayesian filtering code working... due to a couple of configuration problems it wasn't running right. The idea is to delete comme nt spam before anyone sees it. It's hard to tell if the filter works yet because it needs more training, but so far it's doing pretty well. If you think comment spam is not a big problem, you haven't moderated a discussion group lately... this is the number one priority for spammers these days, since email filters are starting to work pretty well and spamming a lot of discussion groups is perceived as a good way to trick Google into giving a site prominent placement.

We admit to three strategies to prevent comment spam:

1. Bayesian filtering which can be trained to remove comment spam instantly
2. Not allowing new comments on old posts, so that comment spam can't be hidden in posts which nobody but Google visits any more
3. Using a META tag to ask search engines not to follow URLs from discussion topics. Although this technique prevents comment spam from working it doesn't prevent it from happening because spammers don't seem to particularly care if a given spam works or not.

By "we admit to" I imply that there are other things we do which we don't talk about too much because revealing them would make it that much easier for spammers to work around them, thus reducing the cost of spamming, thus making it more economically feasible.

One side affect of the Bayesian filter is that if it finds a suspicious topic, rather than letting it through, it will flag it for a human moderator. The moderator can then allow it to be posted (which trains the filter) or leave it unshown. The effect of this is that rarely, new posts won't appear until a human approves them. This should happen less and less as the filter learns more.

September 26, 2004

September 26, 2004 09/26/2004 01:05 PM

Doug Kaye interviewed me for IT Conversations; you can listen to the audio interview. Dave Walker also interviewed me for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age; an extended verison of that article is on his site Shorewalker.com< /a>. Finally, Mary Jo Foley came by the Fog Creek office to interview me for Microsoft Watch, which is a subscription-only newsletter.

september 5th is coming soon!

september 5th is coming soon! 08/30/2004 09:14 PM
it's not too late for you to get me something for my birthday

The September Project

The September Project 05/10/2004 05:49 AM
The September Project
http://www.theseptemberproje ct.org

On September 11, 2004, citizens across the U.S. will come together at their local libraries to discuss ideas that matter to all of us. Through talks, debates, roundtables, and performances, citizens will share ideas about democracy, citizenship, and patriotism. What better way to spend September 11th, recently designated "Patriot Day," than by participating collectively, thinking creatively, and becoming a part of the well-informed voice of the American citizenry? Public libraries provide all citizens open and free access to information. Almost all communities in the U.S. have at least one library. There are over 16,000 public libraries in the U.S., and that's not including university libraries, K-12 libraries, research libraries, and church libraries. In other words, libraries constitute an impressive national infrastructure. Moreover, 96% of public libraries have computer technology that can serve to connect events across the nation, thereby constituting a national and distributed media infrastructure. In this way, the September Project will foster a national conversation with, for, and by the people.

Fear September?

Fear September? 09/01/2004 01:57 PM
September historically offers the worst stock market performance by far. Whatever.

September 06, 2004

September 06, 2004 09/06/2004 10:08 PM

My Latest Article

Software in the 1980s, when usability was "invented," was all about computer-human interaction. A lot of software still is. But the Internet brings us a new kind of software: software that's about human-human interaction. When you're writing software that mediates between people, after you get the usability right, you have to get the social interface right. And the social interface is more important. The best UI in the world won't save software with an awkward social interface. It 's Not Just Usability

Workspace Quality

Someone posted a nice summary of links to information about the quality of workspace provided to software developers.  “Perhaps it can be useful to other software developers in a position to influence managers or may someday be in a position to make decisions about workspace design themselves.”

September 02, 2004

September 02, 2004 09/02/2004 01:42 PM

Try out the new discussion group, now in beta!

A few brief comments:

• Yes, there are bugs! Many bugs! Please report them using the link provided.
• It looks kind of plain right now, I know. And I haven't implemented a search feature yet, which is planned.
• It works a lot like the old discussion group.
• There's a new archive section ("Older Topics").
• You can provide a URL with your name when you post. I'm hoping that people who have their own web sites will do so, and that this will make posters a little less anonymous. (Note that these URLs will not be followed by search engines like Google, so they cannot be abused to "steal" PageRank.)

Most of the changes are really on the back end, in the adminitrator's interface and in the abuse- and spam-prevention features. I'm hoping that if all works well, you'll see a lot less spam. And it's now much easier for me to make a new discussion group, something which used to take an hour of work, so I may set up several new groups in the future (if you have a good idea for a topic please post it.)

September 03, 2004

September 03, 2004 09/03/2004 09:55 AM

I'm happy to announce that my friend, teacher, and competitor Eric Sink has agreed to host the new Business of Software forum.

Eric has been in the software industry from time immemorial. He built one of the first web browsers, Spyglass and founded the AbiWord project to make an open source word processor. His latest company is SourceGear, a highly successful Inc 500 software company in Champaign, Illinois which makes great source control management software. He writes a column on the business of software for MSDN and has his own weblog where he has been extremely generous with his knowledge of software business. I couldn't have a better host.

Beware September!

Beware September! 09/01/2004 05:22 PM
Plus, Bill Gates to upgrade fun, and Winn-Dixie's fortitude.

qotd september 7

qotd september 7 01/07/2004 06:54 PM
G roucho Marx: "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

September 11, 2004

September 11, 2004 09/12/2004 08:39 AM
In Memoriam

qotd september 4

qotd september 4 01/07/2004 06:54 PM
Patricia Neal: "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."

qotd september 1

qotd september 1 01/07/2004 06:55 PM
Lawana Blackwell: "The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them."

New iMac In September

New iMac In September 07/01/2004 05:21 PM
As shown on the Apple Store:Apple has stopped taking orders for the current iMac as we begin the transition from the current iMac line to an all-new i...

SpaceShipOne to vie for the X Prize
September 29

SpaceShipOne to vie for the X Prize
September 29 07/27/2004 11:00 PM
SpaceShipOne's first flight in an attempt to claim the Ansari X Prize is set for September 29.

September 11th, three years later

September 11th, three years later 09/11/2004 02:29 PM
The original thread as posted here on metafilter. On the first anniversary this thread consisted mainly of links related to the terrorist attacks. Last year was this thread. Remember those who were lost in this one thread, please, without the politics.

MCI Suffers September Slowdown

MCI Suffers September Slowdown 11/17/2003 07:51 PM
TheStreet.com Nov 17 2003 5:36PM ET

Will September Be Good for Stocks? (AP)

Will September Be Good for Stocks? (AP) 09/05/2004 09:40 AM
AP - Wall Street professionals know to keep their expectations in check in September, historically the worst month of the year for stocks. As summertime draws to a close, money managers are getting back to business, cleaning house, and often sending the market lower in the process.

Midwest Getting Its Summer in September
(AP)

Midwest Getting Its Summer in September
(AP) 09/23/2004 06:36 AM
AP - At a time when restaurants typically put away their patio furniture, sweaters replace T-shirts and sailboats are plucked from the water, Midwesterners are out enjoying activities usually reserved for July and August — not weeks past Labor Day. Summer is here. Finally.
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