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.
