jerry pournelle moves to firefox
Via Paul Thurrott's Intenet Nexus, I read that Jerry Pournelle has moved to Firefox and is very happy to be there:
Last night, on Dan Spisak's advice, we switched my main machines from Internet Explorer to Firefox, installed some extensions, and the experience was so good that I am rapidly installing Firefox on all the machines in Chaos Manor. Firefox is faster than Internet Explorer, and by a lot. IE, with all the security updates, runs as if someone had poured cold molasses into your machine. There are long delays before text appears on screen even on text-based web sites. It doesn't feel crisp. And while Internet Explorer will resize text on some web sites--my own included--on others setting it to maximum text size still won't get text large enough for me to read without getting close and squinting.
Among other things, Pournelle was one of my favorite sci-fi writers when I was in middle school and high school. His and Larry Niven's The Mote in God's Eye and the Gripping Hand were great fun. Actually, all of the Niven and Pournelle books were great (Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer are the other two that pop immediately to mind.)
To know that someone I respect as much as Pournelle has moved over to a product I helped conceive and deliver is extremely gratifying.
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Sounds like Jerry needs to clean his computer. IE isn't that slow normally so I'd bet he's installed all sorts of toolbars and similar crap.
Posted by: Al | December 27, 2005 10:22 PM
IMO, he should also consider getting a decent blogging system. His homepage looks... well... crappy? See for yourself.
Posted by: Beat Bolli | December 28, 2005 1:16 AM
I wonder what his reactions would be like if he installed Opera instead.
Posted by: Oh my... | December 28, 2005 3:20 AM
This is good publicity for Firefox from a much-respected writer. This piece will be reported all over the web.
@ Oh my...: Who care what he uses, as long as he moves away from MSIE? Anything that is good for a standards-compatible web is good for Firefox.
Posted by: ADAXL | December 28, 2005 3:44 AM
"IMO, he should also consider getting a decent blogging system. His homepage looks... well... crappy?"
After all these years we're used to it! His was one of the original web-journals so don't knock it. Now available as an RSS feed:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/atom.xml
W.
Posted by: Wally | December 28, 2005 3:51 AM
I agree w/the fact that Firefox is a good Browser, for after weeks of problems trying to get IE6 to load webpages correctly w/"no errors on page", it was truly a welcome sight to see the pages load correctly the first time! I loved IE before this started happening, & if I knew what else to do, (I've tried everything I know to do, & my IP suggested that I do as well, & still it was a nightmare!), but, after being suggested to go w/Mozilla Firefox, well, I have to say that now there is no comparison to the issues I was dealing with. If someone could point me in the right direction w/IE6, I'm open for suggestions, for I've used it for so very long & loved it... Other than what I've listed above, no problems on this end. And! What's wrong w/his blog? Seems to be gaining attention, yes?
Happy New Year All!
Patt
Posted by: Patt | December 31, 2005 3:07 PM